Design
Wild Oats XI is a state-of-the-art IRC supermaxi yacht designed by Reichel/Pugh with a Carbon/Nomex composite hull. As a distinctively narrow sloop at 5.1 m (17 ft) beam with an ambitious offshore racing program, she originally featured "canting ballast twin foil" appendages enabling her to carry a large sail plan without compromising stability. Her underbody has been updated continuously and now features a bow centerboard, twin daggerboards amidships, a canting keel with vertical winglets on the torpedo bulb and a centreline single aft balanced spade rudder.
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