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YYachts Y7 — 22-metre doublehanded-sailable performance cruiser under sail.

YYachts Y 7

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THE BOAT

The big yacht that asks less of you

The YYachts Y7 has always been about removing things: the clutter, the noise, the obligation. What the new generation adds is volume, and what that volume becomes is the interesting question. Below decks the owner's cabin has grown significantly and now comes in three configurations, from an expansive suite with walk-in wardrobe to a layout that incorporates a proper office or dressing room. A new VIP guest cabin exists where none did before. The saloon is quieter too: the engine room has been moved out from beneath the floor, so the common area is still and settled the way a well-considered home is still.

On deck, the cockpit sofa is wide, deep and unhurried, the sort of place you settle into at anchor with no particular intention of moving. Four interior concepts, materials and finishes chosen to order, no two YYachts Y7s finished the same way. The reduction the brand has always believed in is still here; there is simply more space inside it now.

The Y7 — at a glance
Length over all
21.99m
Beam
6.10m
Draft (fixed keel)
3.50m
Displacement
31.8t
Mainsail
180
Engine
Yanmar 4LV150110 kW
YYachts Y7 sailing, the class best-seller
01TRACK RECORD

The class benchmark, redrawn

More than twenty Y7s are sailing worldwide, making it the best-seller in its class, and that number comes from a particular discipline: owners who sailed the original Bill Tripp hull hard, came home and ordered another. Judel/Vrolijk have since redrawn the new generation with more volume, a wider hull, a mast moved aft and a streamlined bow, yet from any distance the silhouette is unmistakably itself. Change only what you can justify; carry nothing forward just because it was always there.

YYachts Y7 carbon hull under sail
02CARBON HULL

The rig fills, the hull answers

The Y7 is built entirely in carbon, hull to mast, and the owner notices it on every passage: the boat moves when others do not. At 31.8 tonnes across 22 metres, displacement is low enough that the 180 m² square-top main, fitted as standard, finds purchase in winds that leave heavier cruisers sitting still. The motor stays quiet and the log keeps ticking over.

YYachts Y7 cockpit with lines led aft
03DECK SENSE

Every line runs back, nothing asks you to move

Every halyard and sheet runs concealed to the helm, so the person at the wheel trims, tacks and gybes without leaving the cockpit. An asymmetric companionway keeps the central passage clear, and the coaming is drawn back toward the coachroof, leaving wide, open side decks that simply feel like room to breathe. The result is a seventy-foot yacht you can read from a single position, and that reduction is the whole point.

Full specifications

Every number,
on one page.

Length over all (LOA)
21.99 m
Bow sprit extension
23.80 m
Length waterline (LWL)
20.55 m
Beam
6.10 m
Draft (fixed keel)
3.50 m
Shallow draft keel
2.85 m
Displacement (light ship)
approx. 31.8 t
Ballast (fixed keel)
approx. 10.7 t
Ballast (telescopic keel)
approx. 10.4 t