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YYachts Y8, 24-metre weight-engineered performance cruising yacht under sail.

YYachts Y 8

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THE BOAT

Good mood, open water, nothing in the way

You cast off and the Y8 does something most big yachts do not: it gets out of your way. The self-tacking jib handles itself, the halyards disappear below deck, the 196-square-metre main draws and pulls and the whole boat settles into its stride without a word being said. That is the idea, reduced to its essentials and left to work.

Below, the YYachts Y8 reshapes itself around whoever is aboard. The engine room, moved under the saloon floor to sit low in the hull, gives the rest of the boat back to living: the saloon opens wide, natural light comes in through a deckhouse designed to keep things cool, and the layout, whether three cabins or four, owner's suite forward or aft, galley open or closed to the saloon, follows the owner rather than the other way around. Eleven hulls built, each one arranged differently below. Each one the same conviction above.

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The Y8: at a glance
Length over all
23.99m(78.7 ft)
Beam
6.58m(21.6 ft)
Draft (fixed keel)
4.30m(14.1 ft)
Displacement
38.5t
Mainsail
196m²
Engine
Yanmar 4LV195143 kW
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YYachts Y8 racing under full sail
01SPEED

Built to cruise, drawn by people who race to win

The Y8 is a genuine racing yacht that happens to be one of the most composed cruisers at eighty feet. Javier Jaudenes and Surge Projects, whose designs have won regattas up to the Baltic 108, engineered the wider stern and mast set further aft not as styling but as performance: they load the self-tacking jib harder and extend the effective waterline at speed. At 38.5 tonnes in carbon, it moves in the light airs that becalm heavier fleets, and pulls clear when the breeze arrives.

YYachts Y8 saloon interior
02ROOM TO LIVE

Space that reshapes itself around you

The new Y8 carries 20 per cent more interior volume than its predecessors, and the design team spent the gain on choice rather than bulk. The owner's suite, with its own private saloon, sits forward or aft depending on how you use the boat; the galley opens to the saloon or closes away; three or four cabins slot in to taste. A carbon yacht that races this hard does not usually ask what kind of trip you are planning. This one does.

YYachts Y8 stern garage and transom
03STERN THAT WORKS

Everything you need, nothing you don't

The transverse garage in the Y8's stern swallows a tender of nearly four metres and launches it through the transom without the usual deck-level chaos, while separate crew access keeps the cockpit clean and the owner's end of the boat exactly that. Two ideas from one conviction: every square metre of a performance yacht should earn its place, and the ones that don't simply should not be there.

Full specifications

Every number,
on one page.

Length over all (LOA)
23.99 m (80 ft)
Length including bowsprit
25.99 m (85.3 ft)
Length waterline (LWL)
22.13 m (72.6 ft)
Beam
6.58 m (21.6 ft)
Draft (fixed keel)
4.30 m (14.1 ft)
Optional fixed keel
3.70 m
Telescopic keel
2.80–4.30 m
Displacement (light ship)
approx. 38.50 t
Ballast (fixed)
approx. 12.90 t
Ballast (telescopic)
approx. 12.50 t
Ballast (shallow draft)
approx. 13.80 t

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FAQ

Common Y8 questions, answered.

The YYachts Y8 is genuinely designed to be sailed shorthanded, with every control run back to a single helm station, a self-tacking jib and a hydraulic mainsheet that remove the need to leave the cockpit mid-manoeuvre. At 80 ft the boat is large, but the philosophy behind it is deliberate: less standing between the owner and the sailing, not more crew between the owner and the fun.

The YYachts Y8 has competed at the Superyacht Cup Palma in a field that included some of the most celebrated grand-prix yachts afloat, and Javier Jaudenes of Surge Projects built the wider stern and set-back mast position specifically to unlock high-speed potential. The carbon structure keeps displacement to 38.5 t for a hull of this size, and the 179 m² mainsail gives it the power to match.

The YYachts Y8 is laid out so that family life aboard and serious passage-making sit alongside each other without compromise: a transverse garage in the stern handles the tender, the flat deckhouse keeps sightlines clean and the cockpit generous, and the interior can be individually configured for each owner. Separate crew access means the working end of the boat stays out of the living end.

The YYachts Y8 uses a modular interior system so that no two boats are the same, with layout, materials and fittings tailored to each owner's brief from the outset. The structure is carbon throughout, so the interior is a blank canvas of sorts: light, quiet and adaptable rather than fixed around a production spec.

The YYachts Y8 is built around the idea that the complexity most big yachts impose on their owners is optional, and the engineering choices reflect that: a backstay-free rig, concealed halyards and sheets, and all deck winches within reach of the helm keep the boat tidy and the passage low-drama. Javier Jaudenes described the Y8 as 'a good-mood yacht', and the sea-trial record suggests he was right.

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