The racer that refuses to apologise
Some boats play it safe. The Shogun 50 does not. Push the bow off the wind, load the keel down to its full racing depth, fill the 138.5 square metres of sail area, and the Shogun 50 turns into something closer to a racecourse weapon than a cruising yacht: carbon hull, carbon rudders, carbon rig, the whole lot tuned to go fast and then go faster. At 7.9 tonnes all-up, with 45 per cent of that weight buried deep in the keel bulb, it heels to the breeze, loads up and drives like very few boats its size ever will.
Then you thread into the anchorage that no production racer could touch, go below and have an actual dinner. That is the trick the Shogun 50 pulls. CE ocean-rated and built for genuine offshore miles, it is just as happy two-up on a fast passage as it is crewed up and hunting a class win. Serious sailing. Real comfort at the end of it. No apologies for either.
