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YYachts Y 9

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THE BOAT

The ocean on your own terms

The cockpit of the YYachts Y9 is so clean it takes a moment to work out where everything went. The mainsheet is gone from the helm area entirely, routed to the fixed bimini overhead so the whole stern is just space: sea air, good company, the kind of ease that used to cost a full crew. A self-tacking jib and a mainsail that needs no backstays mean the Y9 sails when you want to sail, not when you can organise the people to make it happen.

Below, the Y9 delivers a volume that a hundred-footer would not be embarrassed by, configured however you need it. Up to five layout options, a private owner's suite, soft oak and considered light: the interiors carry the same conviction as the deck, which is that the best thing you can add to a superyacht is a reason not to need anything else. The Y9 won the Boat International Design and Innovation Award for Outstanding Exterior Design. It was not given for excess.

The Y9: at a glance
Length over all
29.71m(97.5 ft)
Beam
6.80m(22.3 ft)
Draft (fixed keel)
4.80m(15.7 ft)
Displacement
55t
Mainsail
242m²
Engine
2 × Yanmar 4LV195143 kW each
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01TWO ON THE HELM

The cockpit does the work so you sail

On the Y9 the mainsheet never crosses the cockpit, routed instead to the fixed bimini overhead, the jib self-tacks, and the mainsail drops without backstays to fight. Push-button sail systems absorb what would otherwise take a trained crew of six, and every halyard and sheet runs hidden to the helm, so whoever is on deck is sailing rather than managing rope. YYachts fits only what earlier builds proved worth its place: complexity dissolved into the boat, so the boat dissolves into the passage.

YYachts Y9 — interior
02YOUR YACHT, EXACTLY

No two Y9s leave the yard the same

The Y9 comes in three versions, classic, Pilot House and full Custom, and within each the layout and equipment are yours to set from the outset. Five interior configurations are on offer, from a full-beam owner's suite aft to a private forward apartment with its own saloon and dressing room. The reduction philosophy that strips the deck bare applies below too: only what you actually want, arranged precisely as you want it.

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03OPEN WATER

Fast enough to outrun the forecast

The Y9 was built for passages where weather is a variable, not a schedule. The hull is tuned to fifteen degrees of heel for open-ocean running, and with 242 m² of main and a 617 m² gennaker drawing, it has logged 26 knots on a delivery crossing, not racing, just going. That speed is a safety margin as much as a pleasure: the kind that lets you pick a weather window rather than negotiate with it.

Full specifications

Every number,
on one page.

Length over all (LOA)
approx. 29.71 m (97.5 ft)
Length waterline (LWL)
approx. 26.04 m (85.4 ft)
Beam
approx. 6.80 m (22.3 ft)
Draft (fixed keel)
approx. 4.80 m (15.7 ft)
Telescopic keel (standard)
approx. 3.20 – 4.80 m
Telescopic keel (optional)
approx. 2.90–4.30 m
Displacement (light ship)
approx. 55 t
Ballast
approx. 18.92 t

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FAQ

Common Y9 questions, answered.

The YYachts Y9 is designed to be sailed by a small crew, and in practice an experienced owner can handle her short-handed. Every halyard and sheet runs hidden to the helm positions, so one person at the wheel has full control of the boat at any time.

The YYachts Y9 offers an owner's suite with full privacy, and the layout can be configured with up to three additional guest cabins depending on the owner's brief. Because the Y9 is built on a fully modular system, the forward and aft living areas can be divided or opened, and the number of cabins chosen before the boat is built, at no extra cost.

The YYachts Y9 is genuinely competitive at superyacht regattas: founder Michael Schmidt specifically noted her 90-foot rating makes her a contender for events such as the St Barths Bucket, the Superyacht Cup and the Maxi Rolex Cup. The same carbon construction and Bill Tripp hull that keep her light offshore make her fast on the race course.

The optional telescopic keel on the YYachts Y9 lets the owner vary the draft between roughly 3.20 m and 4.80 m, opening up anchorages and harbours that a fixed 4.70 m keel would rule out. For blue-water passages and regattas the keel drops for maximum stability and upwind drive; for exploring shallower water it retracts.

The YYachts Y9 is 90 ft (29.71 m) LOA with a beam of 6.80 m, and the hull is designed to deliver the interior volume of a 100-footer in those 90 feet. In practice that means full standing headroom, generous saloon space and a real owner's apartment, none of the compression that usually comes with a yacht this length.