🚀 My wallyrocket Experience – Valencia, March 12-14, 2025
The wallyrocket51 is Wally’s first-ever pure racing yacht, a 15.5m ONE-DESIGN sailboat engineered for extreme performance. Developed in collaboration with Botin Partners, is designed as a ONE-DESIGN class and optimized to compete in the IRC and ORC racing circuits.
Key Design & Engineering Contributors:
🔹 Naval Architecture: Botin Partners
🔹 Structural Engineering: Pure
🔹 Project Development: Vasco Vascotto & Guillermo Parada
🔹 Design: Luca Bassani, Wally Design Team & Studio Santa Maria Magnolfi
Technical Specifications:
📏 LOA: 15.5m | LWL: 14.68m | Beam: 4.32m
⚓ Draft: 3.5m | Displacement: 6,000 kg
Sail Areas:
⛵ Mainsail: 70m² (square top with deflectors)
⛵ Jib: 45m²
⛵ Gennaker: 200m²
⛵ Upwind sail area: 97m² | Downwind sail area: 270m²
Materials & Construction:
🛠 Hull: Carbon pre-preg with Corecell core
🛠 Deck: Carbon/Nomex
🛠 Mast: High-modulus carbon (Southern Spars)
🛠 Rigging: Carbon fiber (Future Fibres AeroSix)
Performance & Features:
🚀 Wally’s first-ever pure racer – redefining the brand’s DNA
🎯 One Design class & optimized for IRC & ORC circuits
⚖️ Adjustable trim tab (America’s Cup-inspired)
💦 Water ballast system (4 tanks, 600L total, 60s fill/empty, 10s transfer) – allowing a reduced crew of 11 sailors while maintaining optimal performance and pitch control, making it particularly useful for long-distance racing.
Sea Trial Highlights 🌊
🟢 Light wind (TWS: 6.4kn) upwind test:
➡️ Boat speed: 7.15kn at 15° AWA
🟢 J2 jib used (designed for stronger wind); with the larger J1, performance can only improve!
🔥 The wallyrocket 51 boasts an impressive apparent wind angle (AWA), significantly improving upwind performance. The trim tab reduces leeway and enhances VMG, making it a game-changer in competitive sailing.
This is more than just a racer – it’s a benchmark in performance sailing. Can’t wait to see it on the racecourse!
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