Virga
Virga 55 / The chapters

Water, becoming light.

Design

A line that
holds.

The hull is drawn from one line. It runs level from the transom and lifts at the bow, and everything above it stays below the eye. The hull is the grey of the sea before rain. The top is carbon, left matte. The metal is bronze, brushed.

The sheer line of the Virga 55 from water level, the bronze strake running aft.
The sheer, from the water.
The blade edge of the carbon top against the sky.
The edge of the carbon top.

Thin at
the edge.

The carbon top is a blade at its leading edge and a shelter beneath. A glass panel in its centre opens the whole helm to the sky.

Light from above.

The owner's cabin at first light: pale oak, undyed linen, a skylight the length of the bed.
The owner’s cabin, first light.

A skylight runs the length of the owner’s cabin. Oak is left pale. Linen is undyed. The stone in the bathroom is a grey that matches the hull.

A grey stone basin and a bronze tap in the bathroom of the Virga 55.
Stone, the grey of the hull.
Five materials on a stone ledge: hull laminate, carbon, bronze, oak and linen.
The five, together.

Five
materials.

Storm grey
The hull, in satin
Carbon
The top, left matte
Bronze
Rails, cleats, bar, the wheel’s hub
Oak
Below, left pale, and the wheel’s rim
Linen
Undyed

What it is made of
is how it goes.