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THE RANGE

Strip it back. Keep the sailing.

Michael Schmidt founded YYachts because the yacht he wanted did not exist: large, genuinely fast, simple enough to sail without crew. So he built it, out of a carbon yard in Greifswald, and launched the first hull in 2017 with one organising idea: strip the big yacht back to what matters, and the sailing takes care of itself.

The range runs from the Y6 at 64 feet to fully custom builds beyond 90 feet. Naval architecture by Bill Tripp and Surge Projects, interiors by Sir David Chipperfield and Norm Architects, all-carbon hulls and rigs kept honest by a self-tacking jib and every line led aft to the helm. These are yachts built to go wherever you point the bow, with almost nothing standing between you and the sailing.

The range

Six yachts — the YYachts range.

YYachts Y6

Y6

YYachts Y7

Y7

YYachts Y8

Y8

YYachts Y9

Y9

YYachts YBreeze 75

YBreeze 75

YYachts Y-Custom

Y-Custom

The values
YYachts Y7 performance carbon sailing yacht exterior and interior details — gallery image 46
01Carbon

Light enough to find wind others don't feel

An all-carbon hull and rig changes what the boat is willing to do. Built to a displacement that lets her ghost in conditions that would leave a heavier cruiser sitting still, a YYacht accelerates properly when the breeze fills. Carbon is also how a big yacht gets stripped to the essentials without sacrificing stiffness or longevity: less weight means more sail, more speed and more of the pure feeling the whole thing is built around.

YYachts Y9 — — Neu Yyachts_Y9_all-45
02Short-Handed

A big yacht, handled on your own terms

Self-tacking jib, lines run aft to the helm, a rig tuned for lightness: YYachts built each of these in from the beginning, not as a concession to short-handed sailing but as the whole point. Across the range, the boat asks no more of you than one half its size. Go where you like, leave when you like.

YYachts Y6 exterior and interior details — gallery image 12
03Bespoke

Built around one owner, from the start

Every YYachts commission begins with a conversation, not a catalogue. Across the range and through the Y-Custom programme, the yard builds to your brief: how you sail, where you go, what the boat means to you. Bring your own design team for the interior, or work with the in-house team or names like Chipperfield and Norm Architects. The result is a yacht that could only ever have been yours.

04The Season

Collect her in Europe, sail her home

There is a particular pleasure in setting off from a European harbour aboard a boat built for exactly this: light, quick and needing no crew beyond whoever you brought along. Spend a season finding out what a carbon hull this honest and this quiet is actually capable of. When you are ready to return, Carbon Yachts arranges the passage back to Australian waters, so the adventure runs unbroken from first sail to arrival.

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FAQ

Frequently asked about YYachts.

YYachts is a German carbon performance yard in Greifswald, founded by Michael Schmidt after his time at Hanse with one guiding idea: build the simple, fast, luxurious sailing yacht he could not find. The first boat launched in 2017, and every YYachts since has left that same yard with the same philosophy intact: look good, sail easy, keep nothing that does not earn its place.

The YYachts range opens at 64 ft with the Y6 and steps up through the Y7, Y8 and Y9, which reaches past 90 ft, with the YBreeze 75 sitting alongside as a dedicated daysailer. For owners who want something entirely their own, the Y-Custom programme has no ceiling; builds beyond 100 ft have been completed to individual briefs, shaped by naval architects Bill Tripp and Surge Projects and finished by designers including Sir David Chipperfield and Norm Architects.

Short-handed sailing is not an afterthought at YYachts; it is the founding premise. Self-tacking jibs, lines led back to the helm and all-carbon hulls that move in barely a whisper of breeze mean the boat does not need a professional crew to sail well, whatever the size. A single capable sailor or a small group without specialist knowledge can take a YYachts offshore and bring it home.

On a YYachts, carbon means the boat answers when the breeze is light and does not labour when the conditions build, because there is simply less mass to push through the water. Combined with Silent Box insulation throughout, the result is a yacht that is genuinely quick under sail and notably quiet below, which changes the character of a long passage entirely.

At the Y-Custom level, a YYachts build starts from a blank page: hull form, deck layout, interior architecture and every finish worked through directly with the owner. Even within the production range, YYachts draws on internationally recognised architects for interior collaborations rather than a standard catalogue, so the result tends to feel considered and particular rather than off the shelf.
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