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Sagitta 30 review: Good performance and roomy accommodation

• David Harding
• January 26, 2024

If you’re after a 30-footer that combines offshore ability with shallow draught, good performance and roomy accommodation, a Sagitta 30 might fit the bill. David Harding explains why

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For some monohull sailors, multihulls are still from a different planet, or perhaps even a different galaxy. Despite the increasing popularity and acceptance of catamarans as charter boats, many of the old preconceptions persist: multihulls don’t go to windward, they pitch and slam uncomfortably and, if you load them up for offshore sailing, they lose any speed advantage they might have had.

One man who has done more than most to prove that these notions are fallacies is Richard Woods. Involved with multihulls since the 1960s, he has designed dozens of catamarans (and a few trimarans) up to 69ft (21m). He has built and owned around 20 of them himself, and sailed tens of thousands of ocean and coastal miles in both his own designs and those of others.

Unlike some multihull enthusiasts, however, Richard hasn’t limited his activities to two or three hulls. He has raced and crossed oceans on monohulls – even designed a few – and continues to race performance dinghies. It’s fair to say his experience of sailing is quite extensive.

Richard Woods demonstrating the Sagitta’s balance from the upper helm seat. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

Until about 20 years ago, I used to pop down to Torpoint not infrequently to sail with Richard on his latest design. Torpoint, as any British multihull sailor will know, is the multihull Mecca of the UK – Millbrook Creek specifically. That’s where Pat and Pip Patterson ran the Multihull Centre and where Darren (Mr Dazcat) Newton and Simon Baker set up Multimarine before taking the Multihull Centre under their wing too. It used to be rare to see a single-hulled boat anywhere near Millbrook.

Millbrook is also where Richard lived when, in July 1991, he launched his new 30ft (9m) Sagitta catamaran. He and his then-wife and co-designer, Lilian, had spent two years building the wooden hulls as plugs, then making the moulds and finally building the first boat with materials that were cutting-edge in their day including biaxial and quadraxial glass and Divinycell foam.

Richard concentrated on the design work while Lilian did most of the building in a big tent in the back garden. At the bottom of the steeply sloping garden was a near vertical drop to the foreshore, so the biggest challenge of the entire process was to manhandle a structure 30ft long and 20ft wide through the trees, over the edge and down into the water.

With the relatively short, low coachroof and the mast stepped well aft, all sail controls are within reach of the cockpit. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

A good reception

The Sagitta was well received by the multihull world. Richard and Lilian sailed it widely, winning a good number of races (including the Fowey to Plymouth two-handed race at an average speed of 11 knots) and finishing second in class in the Round the Island Race.

The Woods rarely owned any of their own boats for more than three years, so in 1995 Sagitta – named as the first of the Sagitta class – was sold. The German owner sailed it to the Mediterranean and kept it there for a few years before selling it to English owners who sailed it back to the UK. A year almost to the day before my latest trip to Torpoint, Richard then bought it back: 32 years and several thousand sea-miles later, Sagitta returned to its first home and original owner.

Easy to raise and lower with uphauls and downhauls, the daggerboards give a performance advantage. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

Work in progress

In the intervening years, Richard had moved west to live in British Columbia, continuing to design, build and sail. We had been in touch periodically and, 18 months or so ago, I heard that he had returned to the UK. Then, while photographing the Round the Island Race from my RIB in July 2023, I noticed a catamaran called Sagitta passing in front of my lens during ‘that’ squall off The Needles (the one that led to at least three dismastings and 16 MOB incidents).

The last time I had seen Richard in that part of the world was when I joined him on his Eclipse 99 cat for the 2002 Round the Island Race.

Domed decks and coachroof give the Sagitta rounded lines. Re-painting the decks is still work in progress. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

Partly as a result of the 2023 photos, I found myself in Torpoint a few months later aboard Sagitta, on which Richard had been working since buying it back. It was very much a matter of work in progress, but the boat was fully functional and flying the new sails from Highwater in Plymouth that had taken it around the island faster than a lot of 35-40ft monohulls.

Under its previous ownership, Richard reckons it hadn’t been sailed that seriously. ‘When I bought it, it had no spinnaker, but three corkscrews and a big bottle rack.’

Russian roots

Richard had come up with the idea for the design of Sagitta during his ‘Day Sail To Russia’ in 1989, when he, Lilian and Stuart Fisher had each sailed one of the Woods-designed 24ft (7.3m) Strider cats singlehanded in company from Plymouth to Tallinn (then in the USSR) in a series of day-hops.

He had wanted a new design that was big, fast and comfortable enough to sail offshore yet small enough for a two-handed crew to manage easily. As with his earlier designs, he gave it rounded hulls with a fairly high prismatic coefficient (i.e. full ends) to minimise pitching and ensure good performance in stronger winds.

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It also features a knuckle above the waterline to increase buoyancy, create internal space and deflect spray while keeping wetted area to a minimum. Generous freeboard should ensure a dry ride, with the flared topsides contributing to ultimate stability (Richard came away from studying yacht design at the Southampton Institute in the 1970s with distinctions in design, structures and stability, and has sat on the ISO stability committee and the Small Craft Advisory Working Group of the MCA).

Other features of the Sagitta include a relatively short, high bridgedeck that starts well aft to avoid slamming. The coachroof is lower than on many cats for easy access to the sail-control hardware together with good visibility from the helm, as well as to reduce weight and windage. It still allows comfortable sitting headroom in the saloon.

A vast cockpit for a 30ft cruising yacht. The beam allows two doors, for easy access to the saloon and both hulls. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

High or low

Richard’s Sagitta has a sizeable rig with a square-top main, paired below the waterline with daggerboards. The idea behind the design was that it could be tuned up or down depending on whether an owner was interested principally in racing, cruising or performance cruising. Other Sagittas, including many of those built as production boats in South Africa, have LAR (low aspect-ratio) keels and more modest rigs.

For performance, there’s no doubt that daggerboards give more than a slight edge. They also reduce pitching by minimising extra buoyancy amidships and, with the kick-up rudders, they mean less draught in creek-crawling mode.

Despite the tall rig and generous sail area, Richard designed the Sagitta to carry full canvas in up to 25 knots of apparent wind, or occasionally more in race mode. The beam of 19ft 6in (5.95m) provides a lot of power and avoids drag-inducing interaction of the wave patterns between the hulls. It also gives an enormous cockpit. One of the boat’s first outings 30 years ago was with 12 people for a day sail, and they still hit 16 knots.

Shallow draught, good performance are hall-marks of the Sagitta 30. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

On the day of our test sail from Torpoint, there were just four of us so we had vast amounts of space in the cockpit. At the helm you can sit on the seat atop the guardrails to see over the coachroof. Alternatively, hinge the seat down as a backrest, sit on the deck and look forward through the doors (one each side leading from cockpit to saloon) and the windows in the coachroof.

As befits a boat of this nature, the Sagitta has tiller steering for simplicity and a direct feel. It also means you can always sit on the windward side for the best visibility forward. There’s a tiller extension on each end of the bar linking the two short tillers, so when you tack you clip one extension back on to the bar, hike across to the other side and pick up the new extension. Thankfully the Sagitta tacks positively – with the daggerboards at least – so, as long as you’re not indecisive with the helm, you don’t have to scuttle across too madly.

Tiller steering also keeps you close to the mainsheet which, together with the Sailspar continuous furler for the screecher (Code 0), came from one of Richard’s 34ft Banshee designs in 1988. Naturally there’s a full-width traveller to help control twist downwind.

A vertical batten in the foot of the jib maximises sail area over the foredeck and coachroof. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

Control centre

Most of the rest of the sail controls are on the coachroof by the foot of the mast, which is only a couple of feet forward of the cockpit. About the only occasion you would have to go on deck is to hoist the spinnaker or when anchoring or mooring. There’s plenty to hang on to, though the domed decks and coachroof mean few flat surfaces under foot.

Forward of the coachroof are a multitude of deck lockers for sails and the anchor, then of course the trampoline between the forward beam and the bridgedeck. From here you can fully appreciate the way the headsail has been cut, complete with a vertical batten in the foot, to maximise its area by hugging the deck and then sweeping up over the coachroof.

In 14-16 knots of wind from the south-southwest that kicked up a lumpy sea beyond the breakwater, we had enough canvas to get Sagitta going nicely, even if at barely half throttle. On a reach we slipped along at 7-8 knots most of the time, which is not bad for a 30ft cruising boat. Richard makes the point that, in a multihull under 40ft, living, cooking, sleeping and navigating at speeds over 8 knots can become uncomfortable.

The saloon is not dissimilar in size to that on a monohull, only aligned athwartships. It can be converted to a single berth, or a large double with the second table (not in use here). Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

In any event, swallowing miles on passage is all about average rather than peak speeds and how hard you have to work to achieve them.

That inevitably led to a discussion about how, on the way around the island with Eclipse in 2002, with a crew of four and a china teapot in the galley, we had found ourselves overtaking Mumm 30s on the beat to the finish.

Richard subsequently had to abandon Eclipse in a Pacific storm so violent that a 450ft US frigate wouldn’t come anywhere near. Eclipse was later found, upright and unscathed, but that’s another story.

Much of the starboard hull is devoted to the galley. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

Two decades later, beating into the Plymouth chop on Sagitta, we made 5.5 to 6.5 knots with minimal pitching and no slamming, so life was pretty comfortable.

It also helped that the helm was finger-light and directional stability pretty good. Little effort is needed to keep the boat on track, and a modest autopilot will suffice.

Below decks

The layout on Sagitta was born of many miles’ sailing experience. Richard prefers to have the chart table in a hull rather than on the bridgedeck, so it’s to port between the double berth in the stern and the heads and wet-locker forward.

The nav station is in the middle of the port hull, abaft the heads and wet locker. Photo: David Harding / SailingScenes.com

The bow sections of each hull were originally devoted to stowage, reached via deck hatches, but a previous owner had cut away the full-width bulkhead in the starboard hull at the forward end of the galley to create an extra berth. That resulted in cracking in remaining parts of the bulkhead, highlighting the risk of making alterations that have structural implications without seeking the advice of the designer or builder.

Another double berth is aft in the starboard hull, leaving the bridgedeck for seating and the saloon table. The saloon gives an all-round view, which we enjoyed when back on the mooring indulging in a cream tea (naturally in both Devon and Cornish styles, since we had one hull in each county).

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For all their logic, catamarans still aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. But if your only experience of two hulls has been on a charter cat that looks like a multi-storey car park (and has the sailing qualities to match), you would find a boat like the Sagitta a revelation. It might not match a Farrier or Dragonfly trimaran for performance in most conditions, but covers the ground pretty efficiently all the same and provides far more living space. The Sagitta is definitely a boat that could convert a few monohull sailors to the pleasures of sailing fast, comfortably and upright in a catamaran.

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Despite the increasing popularity and acceptance of catamarans as charter boats, many of the old preconceptions persist: multihulls don’t go to windward, they pitch and slam uncomfortably and, if you load them up for offshore sailing, they lose any speed advantage they might have had.

One man who has done more than most to prove that these notions are fallacies is Richard Woods. Involved with multihulls since the 1960s, he has designed dozens of catamarans (and a few trimarans) up to 69ft (21m). He has built and owned around 20 of them himself, and sailed tens of thousands of ocean and coastal miles in both his own designs and those of others.

Unlike some multihull enthusiasts, however, Richard hasn’t limited his activities to two or three hulls. He has raced and crossed oceans on monohulls – even designed a few – and continues to race performance dinghies. It’s fair to say his experience of sailing is quite extensive.

Until about 20 years ago, I used to pop down to Torpoint not infrequently to sail with Richard on his latest design. Torpoint, as any British multihull sailor will know, is the multihull Mecca of the UK – Millbrook Creek specifically. That’s where Pat and Pip Patterson ran the Multihull Centre and where Darren (Mr Dazcat) Newton and Simon Baker set up Multimarine before taking the Multihull Centre under their wing too. It used to be rare to see a single-hulled boat anywhere near Millbrook.

Millbrook is also where Richard lived when, in July 1991, he launched his new 30ft (9m) Sagitta catamaran. He and his then-wife and co-designer, Lilian, had spent two years building the wooden hulls as plugs, then making the moulds and finally building the first boat with materials that were cuttingedge in their day including biaxial and quadraxial glass and Divinycell foam.

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SAGITTA is a 57.0 m Motor Yacht, built in Australia by Oceanfast and delivered in 2001.

Her top speed is 22.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 3000.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 12 guests, with 14 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 826.0 GT and a 10.52 m beam.

She was designed by Jon Bannenberg Ltd. , who also designed the interior. Jon Bannenberg Ltd. has designed 41 yachts and designed the interior of 36 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

The naval architecture was developed by Oceanfast , who has architected 6 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database - she is built with a Teak deck, a Aluminium hull, and GRP superstructure.

SAGITTA is in the top 5% by LOA in the world. She is one of 153 motor yachts in the 55-60m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 4.09 kn above the average, her top speed 5.51 kn above the average, and her volume 14.8 GT above the average.

SAGITTA is currently sailing under the Liberia flag (along with a total of other 7 yachts). She is currently located at the superyacht marina Flisvos Marina, in Greece, where she has been located for 1 month. For more information regarding SAGITTA's movements, find out more about BOAT Pro AIS .

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• Name: SAGITTA
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Builder: Oceanfast
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• Exterior Designer: Jon Bannenberg Ltd.
• Interior Designer: Jon Bannenberg Ltd.

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I have just bought a 1966 Sagitta 30. there were only 300 or so made by the royal systems shipyard of denmark. They are Loyds of London certified boats..... I am trying to get some history on my new purchase.  

Have you seen this? Søren og Christina  

wow, thanks.... that is my boat...LOL.. i have done a ton of internet searches and not found that page. Thanks. So i guess from what i am reading it is a decent vessel.  

lol, thanks. i thought it all was pretty interesting. Thanks for the offer on translating.  

Also looking at a Sagitta 30 Hi, I am looking at a Sagitta '30 from 1965. Any info about yours and and any advice would be greatly appreciated. For example, how much did you pay for her, and what kind of shape is she in? The one I'm looking at is posted at $11,950. Thanks, Lars  

Yardpro: Congrats! I have a Sagitta-30, hull number 33. She has been mine for 5 or 6 years. Home port Sitka, Alaska. Yellowchair: It that the yellow hull one in California? I visited her a couple years back, talked with the owner. She used to have a black hull when Bill had her. In general... well built, solid old-school fiberglass. Basic European sensible design. She is much better a sailboat than I am a sailor, very forgiving. I have been living aboard for several years. Summers roaming SE AK fjords. Checkout the "yachtdatabase" website, select "owners contacts", go to "S" and you will find eight Sagitta-30 owner contacts. Tom  

yes I was looking at the one in San Fransisco Bay with a yellow hull. It's still for sale at what appears to be a very good price. I would probably buy it now if I hadn't already found my boat (a Tyler Twister).  

sagitta 30 I just purchased hull #3 sagitta 30; I think there were only about 40 built in the sixties and maybe a few more built later in the seventies. more of a custom production, they have a cult following around the North Sea. I am a seasoned sailboat owner and this boat is incredible loves a fresh breeze and a choppy sea-a dry ride surfer1  

We have hull # 26 we have had ours almost a year now and have gotten to know her pretty well. i sailed when i was a kid, but then motorboated for 30 years... now have fallen back into sailing so i have nothing to compare the sagitta to. We have had it out in 20 knott winds in the ocean with 6 foot seas and it handled it flawlessly, no pounding, or getting wet.... we really have grown to love ours.... i would like to know how it compares to others of it's size.  

sagitta 30 Well, she was designed to "play" in the North Sea; by someone who new what he was doing. I have been on many other cutters and sloops in this size class and this is the best handling of them all. She is also fast in light airs and points to windward very well without rounding up. My last boat was an Endeavour 32 and she was decent; but not sticking in and sliding like the Sagitta. The Endeavour drew 4'2" and the Sagitta almost 5' better rudder control as well. A true blue water pocket cruiser. And not a heavy slug like the westsail 32 either. amazing really. surfer1  

surfer1 said: Well, she was designed to "play" in the North Sea; by someone who new what he was doing. I have been on many other cutters and sloops in this size class and this is the best handling of them all. She is also fast in light airs and points to windward very well without rounding up. My last boat was an Endeavour 32 and she was decent; but not sticking in and sliding like the Sagitta. The Endeavour drew 4'2" and the Sagitta almost 5' better rudder control as well. A true blue water pocket cruiser. And not a heavy slug like the westsail 32 either. amazing really. surfer1 Click to expand...

Does anyone know of a Sagitta 30 for sale????  

Here you go. 30'fiberglass sloop  

The Westsail is a well built boat, just not very nimble thats all.  

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Slatted bases for all beds

Custom foam mattress in owners cabin

3 x Caframo Sirocco Cabin Fans - 12v

Carbon Monoxide detectors

Holding tank monitors

3 Burner Gas Stove

Built-in Eno Gas Grill in Cockpit

US propane LPG installation

Isotherm 190L Double Drawer Fridge - 12v

Isotherm 90L Freezer - 12v

Vitrifrigo Drink fridge in Cockpit

Galanz Microwave / Air Fryer / Convection Oven

Countertop Icemaker

Double basin SS Sink

Pressurized hot and cold freshwater from mixer faucet

Pressurized seawater system with faucet at sink

Draining dish rack

Bimini with Full Helm Enclosure

Electric Dinghy Lift Platform / Swim Deck with remote control

Synthetic Flexiteak floor on transoms and cockpit

Ultra 35kg Anchor with Ultra Swivel and 200ft of 12MM G4 Chain plus 150' Rode

Quick Electrical Windlass (1500 Watts) w/ wired remote in anchor locker

Additional Windlass Control and Chain Counter at helm

Upgraded Anchor Bridle - added thimbles and shackles

2 bow seats

Deck shower with hot / cold water mixer

Dralon protective cover for wheel

Helm Wheel Lock

Cockpit courtesy lighting

Outdoor cushions (cockpit + upper lounge deck + foredeck seating)

Detachable Hanging Sun Awning for the foredeck 

Textelene net cover for trampoline

Cockpit Sun Shades

Lifeline netting

Mooring lines + 6 fenders 

Additional Mooring Cleats

Fresh water Washdown

Interlocking PVC drainage tiles under seat cushions

Bottom Paint - Mar Pro Super B Ablative (Nov 2023)

Sails and Rigging:

Incidence Dacron Mainsail - fully battened square top 

Incidence Dacron Genoa

Incidence Gennaker on continuous furler

Profurl Genoa furler

10mm Dyneema main halyard

FP factory Bowsprit and all hardware to rig downwind sails

1 x Lewmar Electric Winch for mainsail halyard and mainsheet

3 x Lewmar Manual Winches

Automatic mainsail Hook 

Line stoppers for Genoa sheets

Quadruple clutch for reefs 1, 2 and 3 + toping lift

Electronics:

Garmin Full Navigation Package (New in 2023)

2 x 10in Multifunction Chart Plotter displays (at helm and in salon)

2 x Garmin GMI 20 Displays at helm

Garmin Autopilot

Garmin VHF with masthead antenna

Garmin Radar + support + wiring

Second Standard Horizon VHF / AIS at helm station

Garmin Panoptix Live Scope Forward Sonar

Aft facing Camera for Garmin plotter

Fusion Stereo (New 2023) - Bluetooth w/ Bose Interior speakers and Polk exterior bow speakers 

Flat Screen TV on swivel mount in the saloon

Digital TV antenna

Starlink High Speed Internet

Iridium GO mounted w/ outdoor aviation antenna

Rouge Wave WiFi AMp W/Wifi Router

Systems and Electrical:

110v / 60 Hz House Circuit

3 x 300ah Relion Lithium RB300 House Batteries (900ah total)

Victron 3000 Watt Invertor/Charger (New 2023))

11kW Onan Generator - 110V / 60hz - 1260hrs

3 x 365W Sunpower X22 Solar panels on Stainless Arch

3 x Victron MPPT Solar Controllers

2 x 115amp Balmar High Output Alternators

Sterling B2b Chargers 

110V Water heater

Schenker Watermaker 16 G/h (60L/h) 12V

56,000 BTU Air conditioning 110V 60HZ with upgraded raw water strainers

Splendide Washer / Vented Dryer

Galvanic Isolator 110v protection

110v Outlets throughout the boat and in each head

4 x Underwater Lights - Macris Flat style - single color

Mechanical:

2 x 60HP Volvo Penta D2-60 - 450hrs each

Volvo Saildrives

3-blade Folding Props with Line Cutters

Oil pressure and Water Temp senders on both engines – gauges at helm

Engine Interface to Plotters

FireBoy - Engine room fire suppression systems (Certified Nov 2023)

Safety and Extras:

OC 330 Tender – 10.8ft carbon fiber tender with 20hp Tohastu Outboard

Custom dinghy cover

Life Raft Plastimo Transocean ISO 9650 Canister +24h - 6 person

Extensive inventory of spares

Fire Extinguishers (Certified Nov 2023)

Fire Blanket

Carbon Monoxide Detectors

The Multihull Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

This listing is courtesy of the BoatWizard MLS and may be centrally listed with another broker. It is offered as a convenience by David Walters Yachts to its clients and is not intended to convey representation of a particular vessel.

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• Cruising speed of 23 knots
• Sleeps 8 overnight

The 32.5m/106'8" motor yacht 'Sagitta Alba' (ex. Joke) was built by Maiora at their Massarosa shipyard. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Maiora.

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Camper & Nicholsons Yachts unveiled plans for its Sagitta 45 sport cruiser at last week’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.

The Sagitta 45 is a deep-V hull design by the C. Raymond Hunt team. She is meant to handle rough seas, built with vacuum infusion and closed-cell foam sandwich plus reinforced bottom and structural elements. Vinylester resin in the lamination is used to protect against osmosis.

She’s a walkaround with a sunbathing area and windscreen toward the bow. Abaft the sunpad are the helm with double seat and electronics panel, followed by a galley. Toward the transom, the space is customizable with a dinette, a second sunpad, dive tank stowage or fishing elements.

Belowdecks are a cabin with double bed, shower and closet forward, plus an amidships section that can include a galley, stowage or crew quarters with a second head.

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TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom has started gradual localization of rare-earth magnets manufacturing for wind power plants generators. The first sets of magnets have been manufactured and shipped to the customer.

In total, the contract between Elemash Magnit LLC (an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom in Elektrostal, Moscow region) and Red Wind B.V. (a joint venture of NovaWind JSC and the Dutch company Lagerwey) foresees manufacturing and supply over 200 sets of magnets. One set is designed to produce one power generator.

“The project includes gradual localization of magnets manufacturing in Russia, decreasing dependence on imports. We consider production of magnets as a promising sector for TVEL’s metallurgical business development. In this regard, our company does have the relevant research and technological expertise for creation of Russia’s first large-scale full cycle production of permanent rare-earth magnets,” commented Natalia Nikipelova, President of TVEL JSC.

“NovaWind, as the nuclear industry integrator for wind power projects, not only made-up an efficient supply chain, but also contributed to the development of inter-divisional cooperation and new expertise of Rosatom enterprises. TVEL has mastered a unique technology for the production of magnets for wind turbine generators. These technologies will be undoubtedly in demand in other areas as well,” noted Alexander Korchagin, Director General of NovaWind JSC.

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