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A racing boat or racing yacht is a type of sailboat which is specifically designed to compete in races and regattas in the same class or division. Racing boats and yachts are typically highly-tuned and sophisticated vessels, and they are generally much faster than recreational sailing boats of a similar size and design. Racing boats and yachts have much higher performance characteristics than regular boats, and they often use the most advanced materials, sails and other equipment. Racing boats and yachts are typically crewed by a team of individuals with a deep knowledge of sailing and a great desire to win.

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Manufacturers that produce racing yacht sail boats include International , Akilaria , Beneteau Boats , Wauquiez and Comar .

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A used racing yacht sail boat on TheYachtMarket.com ranges in price from £11,500 GBP to £2,960,000 GBP with an average price of £409,000 GBP . Factors including the condition, age, model and specification will affect the price of a racing yacht.

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Performance Yacht Brokerage specialises in Racing Yachts around the World. As well as being the home for Racing Yachts, we are fully committed to ensuring that each client is serviced professionally by offering a dedicated and bespoke service over a broad range of offerings. Whether you are looking to sell your race yacht, or looking for the best race yachts for sale, wanting to build a new performance race boat or simply need race campaign management, Performance Yacht Brokerage can tailor make any service you require. 

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With over 15 years professional yacht racing experience, ranging from high performance dinghy’s through to the largest of Super Maxis, Mike has gained extensive knowledge on all racing yacht types and understands each type of race yacht and their different requirements.

Mike has managed new race yacht builds from the initial concept to their first racing regatta and he was part of the build team for Camper Emirates Team New Zealand in the Volvo Ocean. Mike then went on Boat Captain the race boat in the toughest yacht race in the world. That experience gives him extensive knowledge on race yacht build requirements for all types of race yachts no matter their racing performance. 

Mike has also worked directly under private race yacht owners and managed their various yacht racing campaigns and race crews. The yacht racing campaigns were based in various locations around the World which required a meticulous level of detail to meet the expectations of result driven owners.

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Rupert Holmes on how to go about buying a yacht for shorthanded racing - the fastest growing section of the sport at the moment

The rapidly growing double-handed and shorthanded racing scene has attracted a flurry of recently launched models specifically optimised for this type of competition. But a cost-effective way of competing can also be found with a used boat.

In little more than five years short-handed racing has transitioned from what was often seen as a fringe activity to become mainstream. There was an explosion in interest when a doublehanded mixed doubles class was mooted for the Paris Olympics . This attracted big names including Dee Caffari , Shirley Robertson , Henry Bomby and Ocean Race veteran Emily Nagel.

Even after the class was subsequently dropped from the Games much of that talent has remained in the fleet, and social distancing rules provided a further boost: for a few weeks after the initial 2020 lockdown the only racing possible was solo or doublehanded.

“Growth over the past couple of years has been exponential,” confirms Nigel Colley, Solo Offshore Racing Club director and MD of Jeanneau dealer Sea Ventures. “Once people tried it, many didn’t rush back to fully-crewed sailing. Instead a lot modified their boats for shorthanded racing or downsized.”

Jean Pierre Kelbert’s JPK 10.30 Léon is a double-handed Fastnet winner. Photo: James Tomlinson

It’s easy to think of a good short-handed raceboat as being of a certain mould, with broad transom and twin rudders: Sun Fasts, JPKs and so on. These designs have common traits that include huge stability, translating to better control when pushing hard in borderline conditions and easy depowering when the breeze builds.

However, you don’t have to look far to find examples of wildly different designs that have notched up decent results, including many older models. The most obvious of these is Kelvin Rawlings and Stuart Childerly’s J/105 Jester that won the double-handed division of the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race , took 4th overall on IRC, and was first British boat on corrected time.

Then there’s Will Sayer’s masthead rigged, shoal draught Sigma 33C Elmarleen , which won the 2008 OSTAR on corrected time and the doublehanded class in the 2011 Fastnet.

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More recently, in the 2019 AZAB (Azores and Back Race) my partner and I were 4th overall racing Zest , a 36ft Rob Humphreys one-off from the early 1990s, beating all but one of the seven Sun Fasts in a fleet of 45 boats. Equally, Jeffery Knapman’s MG335 Virago – a design from the 1980s – has a long list of successful results, including overall victory in last year’s RORC Channel Race.

Even before the recent explosion of interest, demand for good second hand shorthanded racing yachts was such that many of the best craft changed hands before reaching the open market. Now that’s typical across the board.

“Demand on the brokerage market has been huge for the last 12 months,” says Hannah Le Prevost, sales director of J/Boat distributor Key Yachting. “It’s coming from people new to racing, those already in the scene wanting a different boat, and from people changing from fully crewed racing.” As a result she says they have a longer list of people looking for a boat than those with one for sale.

Dee Caffari and Henry Bomby racing. Photo: Rick Tomlinson

“The market is really tough at the moment,” adds Colley. “Right now there’s very little available. Inflation in new boat prices is high and lead times are long, so many people are hanging on to their existing boats.” In the last year he’s sold a couple of used JPK 10.10s and 10.80s, plus four or five Sun Fast 3200s, all for 10-20% more than they would have fetched two years ago.

IRC optimised shorthanded racing yachts

Shorthanded racing in the UK and France is predominantly under IRC and there are no one design classes, so it’s imperative the boat will rate competitively (unless six or eight owners eventually get together to seed a new class). In this size range IRC still appears to treat some very lightweight planing boats quite harshly, which tends to rule out designs like the Figaro 2 and many of Pogo’s ultra-fast cruising models.

Equally, the stability requirements for Category 1 oceanic races such as the OSTAR, AZAB and RORC Transatlantic now rule out designs such as the Sigma 33. If your future plans include one of these events it’ll pay to factor it in at an early stage when looking for a second hand boat . Equally, there are few boats shorter than 30ft that comply with the equivalent requirements for the Fastnet.

Outside a handful of small yards such as JPK, two designs currently dominate the market for new boats in this sphere. The most obvious is the Sun Fast 3300 which is offered with a wide range of possible specification and final on-the-water prices varying from around £240,000 to £280,000, including VAT.

Photo: Paul Wyeth/RORC

More than 100 J/99s have now left the factory and racing successes include first doublehanded boat in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race under both IRC and ORCi rating rules. Typically the on-the-water price of a fully equipped new boat is in the £170,000 to £190,000 range including VAT.

Shorthanded racing set-ups

Many myths still circulate about appropriate set-up for shorthanded racing. Perhaps the biggest of these is that symmetric spinnakers are difficult to handle. This may have been true a couple of decades ago, but the professional sailors in the old Figaro 2 fleet got it down to a fine art. This knowledge – and more – is now well embedded in the UK short-handed community.

Once you know the drill, gybing a symmetric kite when sailing solo in up to 20 knots of true wind is straightforward. Depending on the boat and sea state, it’s still possible in 23-25 knots.

A J/105 is a solid shorthanded option. Photo: Key Yachting

IRC is relatively kind on downwind sail area and many older boats benefit from larger spinnakers. On Zest , for instance, we increased the S2 by more than 20%. This is particularly important for offshore racing, where extended periods of very light airs can be encountered.

Headsail choice is important too. Even older boats have almost all changed to non-overlapping jibs, as these rate well and sail changes are enormously easier than with big genoas. A few boats have roller furling, plus a heavy weather jib set on a removable Dyneema inner forestay.

However, most have hank-on sails fitted with a slab reef, which makes for a quick and easy change down from a J3 to a J4, for instance. Equally, a North Sails J1 with a Helix structured luff can be fitted with a Cunningham to flatten the shape to match that of a J2.

Shorthanded boats in the UK invariably carry a Code 0, although they are not so popular in the French fleet. When I sailed with JPK founder Jean Pierre Kelbert last autumn he told me his own JPK 10.30 Leon – which won the doublehanded division of both the 2019 and 2021 Rolex Fastnet Races – has a very flat nylon A3 that can be reefed to an A5.

You don’t have to have a super-modern, wide transomed doublhanded race boat to compete

In very light airs it’s as good as a Code 0 at true wind angles as tight as 60-65°, but is a more flexible sail that means fewer kites are needed, which confers a small rating benefit.

Beyond that, Colley recommends buying “the best pilot you can afford.” He also points out that small tweaks to the deck layout can make big differences to how easy boats are to handle when you’re alone on deck. Additional turning blocks for headsail sheets, for instance, can make cross-winching possible. Moving spinnaker sheet turning blocks forward a little from the transom may enable them to be led to any winch, allowing them to be trimmed from the helm.

Another useful modification is cam cleats on the mast for halyards. Sails can then be hoisted at the mast and temporarily cleated when you’re alone on deck. Once the halyard is fully tensioned at the pit, the geometry means it pops out of the mast cleat automatically.

Kate Cope’s Sun Fast 3200 R2 Purple Mist. Photo: Tom Hicks

Going shorthanded

Kate Cope started sailing later than many, before buying a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36 for cruising. Her first exposure to the racing scene was in 2015 when she helped a friend, who had replaced his heavy old Rival 32 with a J/105, prepare for a doublehanded Fastnet Race.

“When I was helping Rob cast off, I realised I wanted to compete as well,” she told me. She entered her own boat in the Myth of Malham Race the following year, following it with the Channel and Cherbourg races. In 2017 she completed a full RORC season, including the Fastnet, sailing with a team of six. They were third to last on the water – “But we had a massive sense of achievement,” she says.

It helped that a lot of people, among them Rob Nelson, Deb Fish and David Cooper were really generous with their mentorship. “Even though I was at the back of the fleet, no one made me feel stupid – instead they sought me out and helped me explore how we might have done better.” Initially Cope measured progress by noting the few boats she beat in each race. That list quickly became longer and longer.

After a couple of years, she was ready to step into a more performance oriented boat, with the goal of competing in the 2019 AZAB in a new Sun Fast 3200 R2. “In hindsight, the transition from being almost last in the 2017 Fastnet, to completing the AZAB in a high performance boat two years later was a huge one.”

In 2021 she finished 7th out of the 28 boats that competed in the UK Double Handed Offshore Series and her next big goal is the RORC Transatlantic in January next year. She’s also now organiser of the UK Double Handed Offshore Series and JOG vice-captain.

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Beautiful design and masterful construction

RM Yachts’ new 1080 is a more powerful and spacious version of one of the marque’s most successful boats – and it will be even

A record breaking life

This month, Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast hosts one of offshore sailing's most accomplished names, as multiple world record holder Brian Thompson drops in for a

Cammas on Caudrelier Arkea Ultim Challenge performance…

With Arkea Ultim Challenge leader Charles Caudrelier far enough ahead the rest of the six boat fleet to push the pause button to allow a

Gunboat 80 – Rewriting the playbook

Technology and design tools from the America’s Cup, Ultim trimarans and IMOCAs have been combined to phenomenal effect in the Gunboat 80. The Gunboat 80 belongs

America’s Cup: New Territory

Aside from the Swiss Alinghi Red Bull Racing squad who had arrived in Jeddah well ahead of the other teams to train, few people knew

Taking care of the beast

Charles Caudrelier's solo performance aboard the 100-foot Ultim Maxi Edmond de Rothschild has been nothing short of mind blowing over the three and a half

11th Hour Racing announces Francesca Clapcich sponsorship deal

On the heels of The Ocean Race win by its sponsored team, 11th Hour Racing is expanding its work beyond sustainability and ocean health to

Caudrelier record setting performance has designer Verdier on edge of seat

There are few individuals who you could imagine tracking the progress of Arkea Ultim Challenge race leader Charles Caudrelier any closer than Guillaume Verdier –

Looked at differently

HH Catamarans is on a mission to redefine the concept of a luxury performance multihull – from 44ft all the way up to superyacht size. With

Italian ocean racer Soldini swaps his Trident for a Prancing Horse

There I was earlier this week, feeling sorry for iconic Italian yachtsman Giovanni Soldini, after he announced his 11-year collaboration with the luxury car manufacturer

Mixed fortunes befall the Ultim solo around-the-world skippers

We are now roughly two and a half weeks into the Arkea Ultim Challenge and there is a contrasting mix of fortunes for the six

31 IMOCA solo skippers registered for New York Vendée – Les Sables d’Olonne race

While the IMOCA fleet is in winter refit, the organisers of the Vendée Globe are unveiling the details and line-up of their transatlantic race, the

Wow Factor…

The design brief for the 65m ketch Aquarius II posed challenges for the rig and winch designers at Rondal – who delivered some creative solutions. The

Arkea Ultim Challenge – Caudrelier scorches across Indian Ocean

Charles Caudrelier, leader of the Arkea Ultim Challenge, is passing the NE corner of the Kerguelen Islands exclusion zone, racing on a south easterly course

12 days to Cape of Good Hope for Arkea Ultim Challenge leader Caudrelier

At 13:32:22 UTC today the Arkea Ultim Challenge leader Charles Caudrelier on Maxi Edmond de Rothschild passed the longitude of South Africa's Cape of Good

Arkea Ultim Challenge – An extraordinary solo race around the world

A race around the world for solo-skippered 32-metre foiling trimarans has never been attempted before. In fact to date only four people have ever completed a

Vakaros’s wireless instruments just got even better. The technology to provide performance information in a wireless format is not new, with on-deck display units introduced over

Arkea Ultim Challenge – Laperche in safety mode as Caudrelier sets blistering pace

This week's compelling high-speed open ocean match race between the two leaders of the Arkea Ultim Challenge around-the-world race came to an unfortunate end overnight

Yacht-Match – Now you can always get what you want…

Yacht-Match is a yacht broker, dealer and service provider that is founded on a fundamentally different way of doing business. Yacht-Match, Italia Yachts’ dealer for the

Le Cléac’h to pitstop in Brazil for vital repair work

There is bad news for Maxi Banque Populaire XI skipper Armel Le Cléac'h tonight in the Arkea Ultim Challenge who is having to head to

SailGP: New Zealand closes in on top spot after ultra light airs victory in Abu Dhabi

The New Zealand SailGP team did the double in the UAE to secure back-to-back victories after winning the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Sail Grand Prix presented

Instant classic…

The Aegean is one of the best places in the world to stage an offshore race – as the Aegean 600 has shown. It’s not easy

Ben Ainslie explains SailGP step down

PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan talks to Sir Ben Ainslie about his recent decision to step down from helming the British SailGP F50 foiling catamaran. Despite a couple

Nathan Outtteridge to helm Danish F50 at Abu Dhabi SailGP

ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP Team will have a new face on the wheel in Abu Dhabi – as Nathan Outteridge temporarily replaces Danish driver Nicolai Sehested. Sehested,

A big year (and for one so young)

Many of the most successful yachts this summer have A+T instruments. A+T was only founded in 2015 and has now developed a complete range of extremely

One week to go to SailGP debut event in Abu Dhabi

There’s just one week to go until SailGP’s first ever visit to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi for the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Sail Grand

America’s Cup: Why the AC40 is so special…

For 162 years the basic principles of sailing in the America’s Cup remained the same – one person would steer the boat, the rest of

ClubSwan Racing crews enjoy another spectacular season

ClubSwan Racing has enjoyed a vintage season of racing this year, not just in its core one-design classes but in ORC handicap racing too. When Leonardo

Ben Ainslie steps down as helmsman of Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team

There’s big news from the Emirates Great Britain SailGP team this morning with the announcement that the team’s skipper and CEO, Ben Ainslie, has stepped

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