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The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by the  Oatley family , is one of the fastest and most technologically advanced ocean racing yachts in the world. Her record in Australia¹s international offshore classic, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, is unrivalled.

The sleek, 30-metre (100ft) long ocean racing thoroughbred is undisputedly the most successful yacht in the event’s 76-year history. Helmsman Mark Richards is recognised as the race¹s most successful skipper.

Wild Oats XI¹s success went further in 2020 Hobart race

Wild Oats XI was launched only a matter of days before her first Rolex Sydney Hobart race in 2005, yet she proved so fast that the supermaxi blasted its way to a rare triple crown – line honours, a race record time and overall handicap victory. The time for the 628 nautical mile course was 1 day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and 10 seconds.

This was pioneered successfully in 2013 and proved once again to give the yacht an advantage over the fleet.

Wild Oats XI has rewritten the Rolex Sydney Hobart record books many times. Apart from being first to finish on nine occasions, the Oatley family’s pride and joy was the first yacht ever to take four back-to-back line honour victories.

In 2009, after being lengthened to 100ft, the supermaxi surrendered its line honours crown to the almost identical Alfa Romeo but returned to its winning ways the following year.

In the 2012 Rolex Sydney Hobart, Wild Oats XI again took the triple-crown of line and handicap honours and a race record time.

In 2015 the stern was shortened by 2m and 12m forward sections were replaced by a 14m longer, sleeker bow, keeping the midship sections unmodified and in effect moving the entire sail plan aft by 2m.

The boat faced challenges between 2015-2017 but made a comeback in 2018 when Wild Oats XI won its ninth line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with a time of 1 day, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 21 seconds. This win made Wild Oats XI the most successful yacht in the race’s history with Mark Richards holding the title of the skipper with the most line honours victories.

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Wild Oats XI

Returning for the eighth year in a row isWild Oats XI with skipper Mark Richards at the helm and most of her regulars aboard, who are hungry for a sixth Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours title from eight starts, only beaten byAlfa Romeo in 2009 andInvestec Loyal last year, just to make things more interesting. Wild Oats XI is the holder of the race record, which she took in 2005 when she won the treble, in the time of 1 day 18hrs 40mins 10secs - the only boat to win the treble since Rani in the first race in 1945.

Bob Oatley's super maxi also holds the record for the most consecutive line honours wins - four - from 2005 until 2008, surpassing Morna's record of three in a row achieved from 1946-1948. In 2009, Wild Oats XI, along with a couple of others, underwent extensive modifications to increase her overall length from 98ft to 100ft, in accordance with the rule changes to extend the maximum length overall of yachts to 100ft.

After Investec Loyal beat her to line honours in last year's race, in light conditions that the lead boats felt on the Tasmanian coast, Wild Oats XI has a new configuration below the waterline. She still has the retractable daggerboards fitted for the 2011 race, but now has another retractable centreboard on the centerline, three metres aft of the bow.

Earlier this year, Wild Oats XI claimed her third line honours win in the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race and set a new Open race record of 22hrs, 3mins, 46secs, finally beating the 13 year record set by conventional yacht, Brindabella.The super maxi also broke her own 2010 Cabbage Tree Island Race record in November, slicing nearly two hours off it, firming her chances considerably. Features regular top crew, including navigator Adrienne Cahalan, coming up for her 21st Hobart race - the most by any woman.

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Fastest yacht: The giant record breakers

• Toby Heppell
• October 29, 2021

Skorpios is the latest in a long list of giant monohulls designed with a view to becoming the fastest yacht on the planet. We take a look at some of her predecessors

Every so often the yacht racing world sees an ambitious owner with pockets deep enough to want to step things up a gear and produce a new record-smashing fastest yacht.

The latest of these to hit the water is the jaw-dropping ClubSwan 125 Skorpios built for its Russian owner, Dmitry Rybolovlev. Almost everything about this new monster yacht is bigger, stronger, faster and higher tech than any boat which came before it.

Pretty much any metric you care to look at on Skorpios is mind-boggling. The five-spreader Southern Spars mast stands at 175 feet tall, and she can carry 11,324 square feet of sail upwind, and 21,108 square feet downwind.

Enough sail? Skorpios off the Dorset coast. The ClubSwan 125 is named after owner Rybolovlev’s famous Greek island, where Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Photo: Mark Lloyd / Lloyd Images

Skorpios has been built with the express brief to break offshore records as the world’s fastest yacht. Her recent win in the 2021 Fastnet Race – only weeks after hitting the water for the first time – shows she certainly has what it takes to take line honours in big races.

And the numbers Skorpios has shown while racing initially seem to indicate that it is really only a matter of time until she starts claiming some of the biggest records on offer in the sailing world.

But Skorpios is only the latest in a long line of new yachts built with the express purpose of winning line honours and taking records, each bigger, faster and more technologically advanced than that which came before.

The current transatlantic record holder, Comanche , is probably the yacht that most readily springs to mind when we’re looking at the development path for Skorpios .

Before Skorpios , Comanche was the most recent, highly ambitious racing yacht on the planet. She was built with one thing in mind and one thing only, to break ocean records and win line honours in some of the world’s most famous races.

Comanche showing off her considerable beam. Photo: Carlo Borlenghi

“The design office were told specifically by me that if this boat wasn’t the worst rated boat in history they have failed,” stated the owner Jim Clark on Maxi, Comanche ’s launch, reaffirming the aim of the boat to break records and win line honours without any consideration for handicap wins.

Comanche was something of a revelation when she was first launched. Over the years boats had been carrying more beam (width) towards the transom to create more power – at the expense of outright light weather, upwind and VMG running performance.

Comanche took this line of thought to the extreme with what seemed an impossibly wide stern, which led to the boat being nicknamed the aircraft carrier.

Although Skorpios is technically beamier than Comanche (8.75m vs 7.85m) the ClubSwan’s hull shape has a more modest beam-to-length ratio, and far greater internal volume and higher freeboard, all products of the project starting out with some focus on cruising in addition to outright performance.

But despite a slightly less powerful hull shape compared to Comanche , when you look at the rig, you see that this will likely be overcome by sheer grunt in terms of sail area. Skorpios ’ mainsail alone is 7,093 square feet, compared to Comanche ’s 4,413 square feet.

Comanche was, indeed is, a yacht that pushed technology to the absolute limit and when she was launched her extreme design caused quite a stir.

She is still considered one of the fastest yachts on the face of the earth and, in addition to her transatlantic record, Comanche also holds the monohull 24 hour sailing record at an impressive 618.01nm (averaging 25.75 knots) in a 24 hour period.

These two records will almost certainly be two of the key prize scalps Skorpios will be hoping to take.

Mari Cha IV

Although for many Comanche is the most obvious boat to which Skorpios can be compared, arguably a closer comparison could be that of Mari Cha IV , particularly when you consider length and ambition to break oceanic records.

The 140ft Mari Cha IV was launched in 2003, at this size both Mari Cha IV and (140ft) Skorpios face a similar problem, there are several top races that have an upper LOA limit of 100ft – neither could take part in the Sydney Hobart race for example.

Mari-Cha IV held the Atlantic record for 12 years. Photo: Thierry Martinez

In 2003, Mari-Cha IV set a new west-east transatlantic record with a total time of 6 days, 17 hours. During the run, she also set a new 24 hour monohull distance record of 525.5 nautical miles . This record stood until Comanche snatched the crown in 2016.

Due to her size and the sail area needed to power the giant, Mari Cha IV was built as a two-masted schooner. This meant that each mast could be smaller – within the bounds of the technology available at the time.

The twin rig on Mari Cha IV also meant each of the sails could be smaller than would be needed on a single masted yacht, reducing loads and enabling the boat to be sailed without resorting to powered winches.

That Skorpios is a single masted 140 footer demonstrates two things. The ClubSwan 125 shows the advances in technology with a single 175ft mast now being much more easily managed and understood – thanks, in no small part to advancements in load sensing technology which have filtered down from the America’s Cup and high tech offshore yachts such as the Ultime trimaran and IMOCA 60 fleets.

However, sail handling for sails of the size needed on Skorpios is still an issue and the ClubSwan 125 still needs powered winches, which will put her out of contention for a number of records that require exclusively human power.

In 2008, Speedboat was launched . The Juan Kouyoumdjian -designed 100ft Maxi was a yacht designed to produce blistering speeds and was built with the express purpose of ocean record breaking.

Speedboat , Newport Bermuda Race 2010

The yacht was built by Mick Cookson at Cookson Boats in New Zealand and her radical underwater features, including an incredibly flat run aft were all features that would later be included in the design of Comanche – features that demonstrate a yacht built for record breaking as they offer serious compromises in lighter winds.

In many respects Speedboat was the first to take the wide flat hull concept and transplant it wholesale into a 100ft Maxi.

Speedboat was also the first Maxi to have a deck-stepped rig, which was produced by Southern Spars, and she has plenty of other radical features.

To an extent Speedboat was built as a scaled up version of the Volvo 70 ’s which had been impressing in the Volvo Ocean Race . As such it is hardly a surprise the boat was the product of Kouyoumdjian’s design house, as he had created several of the fastest Volvo 70s then racing.

Unfortunately Speedboat arrived at the very start of the financial crisis and she only sailed in a number of events before she was mothballed and eventually sold.

She went through a couple of incarnations before being purchased by George David and was sailed as Rambler 100 during which time she dramatically lost her keel and capsized while competing in the Fastnet Race .

For his part David would go on to commission Kouyoumdjian to draw Rambler 88 , an impressive bit of kit in its own right and aimed at winning line honours and races outright in an 88ft package.

Wild Oats XI

No list of record breakers and record holders would be complete without a mention of Wild Oats XI , the 100 ft Maxi belonging to the Oatley family, which has won the Sydney Hobart no less than seven times.

Wild Oats XI ( WOXI for short) was actually launched back in 2005 and is a prime example of what can be done to a yacht to keep her on pace with current trends and developments.

In 2009 she was lengthened at bow and stern from 98ft to 100ft. In 2011 her forward balanced spade canard was removed and twin daggerboards were added amidships. In 2012 she received a bow centreboard as well as caudal fin winglets on her torpedo bulb.

Wild Oats XI . Photo: Kurt Arigo / Rolex

In 2013 she was equipped with a Dynamic Stability System (DSS) foil, which is a retractable horizontal foil deployed on the leeward side of the boat.

In 2015 her stern was shortened by 2m and her 12m forward sections were replaced by a 14m longer, sleeker bow, keeping her midship sections unmodified and in effect moving her entire existing sailplan aft by 2m, a trend which had been seen in many of the newer maxis to be produced since.

The various appendages which have been added and removed over the years have lent the yacht the affectionate nickname the ‘Swiss army knife’.

By today’s standards WOXI remains a very skinny boat in the Maxi world – she and almost-sistership at the time of launch, Alfa Romeo II both had a max beam of a little over 5m.

Wild Oats XI remains a potent race boat and particularly for races like the Sydney Hobart, her relatively narrow beam gives her an edge in light winds, VMG running and beating, all of which mean she is still very hard to beat over a race with mixed conditions – if ultimately working against her should she ever look to set oceanic records.

Leopard 3 ( ICAP Leopard as she was launched) hit the water in 2007 for serial Maxi owner, Mike Slade. The Farr design had a number of unique features at the time of launch, which made her one of the most impressive superyachts on the circuit.

ICAP Round Britain and Ireland Race 2010

Leopard ’s mast was a towering 154ft and she could set a total downwind sail area of 17,265 sq ft. At the time this was a vast amount of sail – though Skorpios ’ 21,108 sq ft is something of a stark comparison.

Leopard is capable of speeds of over 35 knots. But her similarities to Skorpios actually centre around the plans the British boat had from the start to enable cruising and racing in a little more comfort.

Leopard featured a luxurious removable interior, which could be removed for racing and refitted for cruising or for charter – for which she had also been specifically designed and built.

Although Skorpios does not go quite as far as a fully removable interior, there is, at least, a nod to comfort in her design when compared to the out and out racer that is Comanche .

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Wild Oats XI

The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by the  Oatley family , is one of the fastest and most technologically advanced ocean racing yachts in the world. Her record in Australia¹s international offshore classic, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, is evidence of that.

This sleek, 30-metre (100ft) long ocean racing thoroughbred is undisputedly the most successful yacht in the 75-year history of the arduous event. Her helmsman, Mark Richards, is recognised as the race¹s most successful skipper.

Wild Oats XI¹s success went further in the most recent Hobart race when she claimed a record-breaking ninth win. Her line honours achievement in 2014 saw her beat the previous record of seven line honours which was achieved by Morna (later renamed Kurrewa IV) over 14 years ¬ between 1946 and 1960. Wild Oats XI claimed her eight line honours in just ten years.

Wild Oats XI was launched only a matter of days before her first Rolex Sydney Hobart race in 2005, yet she proved to be so fast that she blasted her way to a rare triple crown line honours, a race record time and victory on handicap. Her time for the 628 nautical mile course was 1 day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and 10 seconds.

When launched, Wild Oats XI¹s ground-breaking design and construction included a radical and technically brilliant canting keel, a feature Bob Oatley pioneered into this form of ocean yacht racing. A canting keel means the keel is hinged on the underside of the yacht¹s amazing carbon fibre hull and controlled by a huge hydraulic ram so it can swing from one side to the other and increase stability. The hydraulic mechanism is so powerful it can lift a jumbo jet off the ground. It is manufactured using aviation grade steel.

With the 12-tonne, torpedo-shaped lead ballast bulb moved 40 degrees out to windward, Wild Oats XI enjoys an exceptional power-to-weight advantage over a conventional design. If she had a non-canting keel, Wild Oats XI would require an additional five tonnes in ballast to achieve the same level of stability. In that configuration she would be 20 percent heavier, and considerably slower.

By Kimball Livingston

When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence.

There will be no Wild Oats XI, and Wild Oats XI is more than a boat.

Speculation is inevitable when a crowd favorite is missing. The report from the boat’s skipper, Mark Richards, is straightforward, but it won’t put an end to wondering. Of the boat and its owners, Richards said: “We had a structural failure in the bow and are having that addressed. The Oatley family are re-evaluating how to progress forward in our sport and they have just decided to have a break this year while they work it out.”

That resonates because in this race, Wild Oats XI has taken line honors (first boat to cross the finish line) nine times, set records three times and, beyond that, won the hearts of Australians.

“Kids 6, 7, 8 years old know the name,” Richards said.

No one dares use the past tense in speaking of Wild Oats XI, but questions arise when a boat that is synonymous with the Sydney Hobart, and that has been rush-repaired in the past to make a race, is absent.

Last year, the boat finished fourth at the Sydney Hobart after a sail ripped underway. It was in August of this year during a race in Australia’s Whitsunday Islands that the hull failure occurred.

In 2005, Bob Oatley commissioned the build of Wild Oats XI and set the standard — the boat swept all honors in its first Sydney Hobart race, only two weeks after launch. The boat would win line honors seven more times before Oatley’s death in 2016. His son Sandy, also passionate about sailing, carried on.

“I’d love to get one more crack,” Richards said. “I guess we’ll know more next year.”

Steve Quigley got his first crack as a crewman in 2012 and felt “daunted” joining the famously accomplished crew. Then, “We were first over the finish line, we set another course record, and we won our division on handicap,” he said. “I should have retired from racing then and there, but it wasn’t until I went walking around Hobart in my team shirt, with strangers asking for autographs, that I understood that Wild Oats XI had become the people’s boat.”

What next? Richards said, “The boat is still very capable.”

Quigley, a naval architect, was part of a team responsible for a bold 2015 redesign that bought the boat some time. In Quigley’s recollection, “I was the one in the meeting who had to tell Bob, ‘You may have the fastest Maxi in the world, but if you want to keep it that way, let’s chop it in half,’” he said.

Then they chopped it twice.

To respect the 100-foot maximum limit for the Sydney Hobart race, length was removed from the stern and added in a new bow section that accommodated bigger sails. Wild Oats XI.2 proved effective across the wind range, and success continued as the boat won line honors again in 2018.

Imagining a 2024 race, Quigley said, “Given the right combination of wind strength and direction, we could find a window to win, but the newer boats have a wider window.”

Design DNA in 2023 is different from 2005. Boats are now wider, yielding stability to carry taller masts and more sail. The maximum width of Wild Oats XI, 17 feet, is 45 percent less than LawConnect, winner of the most recent lead-up regatta series and yet not the newest or widest.

Sandy Oatley did not respond to a request for comment. More than one member of his crew spoke of the team as a “family,” so any decision is charged with emotion: Do you throw money at an unlikely Wild Oats XI.3, or would it satisfy if the boat slipped into the role of sentimental favorite and long shot?

The citizens of Hobart cheer for all, but it doesn’t hurt to arrive on Wild Oats XI. Andrew Henderson, part of the crew since 2005 and a 25-race veteran, said: “Anyone who can get a boat to Hobart deserves respect. The town offers the warmest reception in Australia. All of us understand how special that is.”

This year, however, after many years racing, he said, “I’m spending Christmas with the kids.”

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Wild Oats XI: A giant of Australian racing

The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI is here at the museum for a short visit. Wild Oats and its crew have become an Australian sporting brand, recognised by the public as Australia’s premier racing yacht and team through their dominance of the iconic Sydney to Hobart yacht race, since Wild Oats XI was launched in 2005.

Wild Oats XI in full flight. Image: Rolex – Carlo Borlenghi.

The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI is here at the museum for a short visit . Wild Oats and its crew have become an Australian sporting brand, recognised by the public as Australia’s premier racing yacht and team through their dominance of the iconic Sydney to Hobart yacht race, since Wild Oats XI was launched in 2005. This is Australia’s team, in the eye of the public Wild Oats XI is defending the country’s pride in the nation’s major ocean race – and its public adoration is thoroughly deserved.

Wild Oats XI . Image: Rolex – Daniel Forster.

Triple Crowns and breaking records

The national focus of the Sydney to Hobart is always on the boat to finish first, and in this regard, Wild Oats XI has an impressive scorecard. It has claimed eight line honours wins – at one point, with a run of four in a row! Twice it has achieved the Triple Crown: line honours, handicap win AND a race record. Wild Oats XI is one of the most successful yachts in the history of the arduous event and her helmsman, Mark Richards, is recognised as one of the race’s most successful skipper.

Wild Oats XI was launched just days before its first Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht race in 2005, and despite a limited warm up, it sprinted to the finish line and into history taking the Triple Crown for the first time since 1945, and that was when Rani won the race that began the annual event. Wild Oats XI’s record time for the completing the 628 nautical mile course was 1 day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and 10 seconds. In 2012, Wild Oats XI shaved 16 minutes, 58 seconds off that record and pulled off another Triple Crown, an unprecedented result. Since then the record has been taken by arch-rival Perpetual Loyal, but   Wild Oats XI is ready to maximise the opportunity again  if the right conditions are present on the 26th of December this year and try to reclaim that record.

Beneath Wild Oats XI’s elegant silver-grey hull is a racing machine. The crew operate an engineering masterpiece and remember, long distance blue water ocean racing takes place over a matter of days, not hours. The team live and work on board, it’s like a military vessel where their off-watch habitation quarters are fitted around a high tech structure, first and foremost designed for racing (and winning).

Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Regatta Yacht Race 2016. Image: Andrea Francolini/Wild Oats XI.

Designed to win

Wild Oats XI was commissioned by well-known winemaker the late Robert Oatley AO in 2005, the largest in a series of successful ocean racers he had owned and sailed on. It was designed by celebrated team Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design in San Diego USA. A protégé of Doug Petersen, John Reichel’s partnership with UK yacht designer Jim Pugh has produced a long series of successful ocean racing craft.

When the IMS rule took over from the IOR in the late 1980s as the means of handicapping offshore racing yachts it lead to cleaner/leaner and fairer hull shapes, assessed by computers for their potential speed rather than handicapped around a series of measurement points to produce a rating. Reichel/Pugh took advantage of the new direction in sleek racing yachts to create a sled like hull that dominated the local Trans Pac event from Los Angeles to Honolulu – a sleigh ride under spinnaker.

In 1999, their design Pyewacket for Roy Disney Jr (yes, Walt Disney’s nephew) grabbed the race and everyone’s attention, a narrow flat skateboard that was unstoppable. In 2004, Oatley invited Reichel Pugh team to produce his Wild Oats X, a 66-footer but wound up the ante with a canting keel, his perseverance with that concept helped pioneer the technology in ocean racing. When authorities drew the limit out to almost 100-foot maximum length for offshore ocean racers, Oatley and Reichel Pugh answered the challenge with Wild Oats XI,  a super maxi sled optimised to the nth degree and built in Australia. The builder McConaghy Yachts at Mona Vale Sydney is a world-class yacht builder and Wild Oats XI  speaks of their superior skills in crafting fine vessels.

Happy with the concept, the team had Oatley’s support to keep Wild Oats XI up to date. Sail and rig modifications are never-ending, but almost every year the hull and appendages were given a makeover, to the point it was known as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’: new and improved canards, hydrofoils, rudder and canting keel. Lighter is faster too – the keel can be angled 40 degrees sideways, so the modest amount of mass in the bulb, 12 tonnes, creates the same stability out wide as something almost 50% heavier would if stuck on the centreline. The downside is a loss of keel efficiency, so a canard profile centreboard just forward of the mast brings back the balance and lift. Better still Wild Oats XI has two centreboards, one each side, and they only put the leeward one down as required for even more effectiveness.

Heading up the Derwent River, towards Line Honours. Image: Andrea Francolini/Wild Oats XI.

One of the biggest updates was putting a longer bow on the yacht in 2015, which meant taking the extra length of the back end to keep to the required 100-feet. It’s stopped the tendency to dive into waves downwind. The team can drive her harder now, and have abandoned the hydrofoils sticking out horizontally, meaning less drag and more speed in racing conditions.

A huge square top mainsail, a massive Code Zero headsail for light weather, gigantic asymmetric spinnakers (which the crew control using hydraulic winches) and, the entire time the boat is racing, the engine is running to power the hydraulics. All this is handicapped severely, in fact, the boats elapsed time is pretty much doubled to create it’s handicap time, yet Wild Oats XI can still win. In favourable conditions, with the wind behind or abeam, the super maxi can keep up with the moving weather and optimise it’s race strategy around that one pattern, whereas the slower boats start in one system and then have to negotiate another before they finish.

Wild Oats XI can reach speeds of over 30 knots and boasts an average speed of 15 knots for the course – which is a remarkable achievement as many of the competing fleet can’t even reach that at their maximum speed. It’s in another league, and races just a few other similar size yachts each year, but in battle, it takes no prisoners.

Super maxi Wild Oats XI being toed from Woolwich to Sydney City Marine to undergoing radical changes for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart 2015. Image: Andrea Francolini/Wild Oats XI.

Ready to race

The 2015 Sydney to Hobart saw Wild Oats XI retire for the first time, due to a gear failure, while its recently launched nemesis, the skiff-like Comanche from the USA, got its revenge by winning line honours in a rough and damaging race. In the 2016 race, it was up against three other 100-foot long rivals, the modified 2008 designed  Perpetual Loyal , Scallywag ( ex- Ragamuffin 100,  launched 2014) and the newcomer  CQS  (the radically modified Nicorette,  first launched in 2004 when it won line honours as a 90-footer, now its 100-feet long). Bad luck struck again, and whilst in lead,  Wild Oats XI had to retire again, and the eventual line honours winner Perpetual Loyal  and set a new race record.

Wild Oats XI is by no means outclassed by the newer rivals, the different design and configuration approaches have their strengths and weaknesses and these advantages can even out over a long course, but Wild Oats XI has one strength over many others: over ten years of teamwork and spirit, which is recognised and adopted by the Australian public. All of which just adds to the team’s determination to win again.

— David Payne, Curator of Historic Vessels. 

Take a tour aboard  Wild Oats  10am-12pm and 1-4pm, 26-28 January 2018. See our website for details .

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David Payne

David Payne is Curator of Historic Vessels at Australian National Maritime Museum, and through the Australian Register of Historic Vessels he works closely with heritage boat owners throughout Australia researching and advising on their craft and their social connections. David has also been a yacht designer and documented many of the museum’s vessels with extensive drawings. He has had a wide sailing experience, from Lasers and 12-foot skiffs through to long ocean passages. Since 2012 he has been able to work closely with Aboriginal communities on a number of Indigenous canoe building and watercraft projects.

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Wild Oats: Coming of Age

• By Rob Mundle
• Updated: December 12, 2016

In the spectacular world of international ocean yacht racing, there are three ultimate challenges: the Fastnet race out of England; America’s Newport Bermuda race; and the event most see as the greatest contest of all — the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Across its 71-year history the Hobart race has been laden to the gunwales with drama and excitement. Everything about it is unique. It is the only major offshore racing event in the world that starts on a harbour and finishes in a river. And no other similar event attracts so much media interest, or number of spectators: it is estimated that at the start alone some 300,000 people watch the spectacle when either afloat on Sydney Harbour, or on the shore of what is a magnificent natural amphitheatre. The television coverage of the start takes that number into the millions.

As fate would have it, it was the timing of the inaugural event that set the Hobart race on a course towards becoming the stuff of Australian sporting legend. It was 1945 and a war-weary nation was desperate for a diversion away from the brutalities of World War II, which had ended only months earlier. The Sydney Hobart race would be a much-needed panacea. On Boxing Day 1945 the crews of nine small yachts were seen to be putting their lives on the line in the name of sport by racing to Hobart. Most importantly, the media of the day thrived on the story, especially when the fleet was hammered by a ferocious southerly gale and there were no sightings by the Royal Australian Air Force of one yacht in particular, the highly fancied 35ft long, Rani . Then, on January 2, 1946, The Sydney Morning Herald reported: “DRAMATIC END TO YACHT RACE — Missing Rani Reappears And Wins Easily.”

Rani’s name went into the history books as having been first to finish (line honours), the fastest time for the course (six days/14 hours/22 minutes), and being the winner on handicap (corrected time).

In the 71 years since that first race, 5,827 yachts and more than 50,000 men and women from across the world have contested the annual Sydney Hobart race, and today one yacht stands out as the most remarkable of all; the silver-hulled, 30-metre long supermaxi, Wild Oats XI , campaigned by the Oatley family. On Boxing Day this year this amazing yacht will be going for an unprecedented ninth line honours, and, given the right conditions, she could well claim the treble for the third time – line and handicap honours and a race record. In 2005 – the year she was launched – Wild Oats XI became the first yacht since Rani to achieve that remarkable result.

The story of Wild Oats XI’ s origins, and her wonderful owner, the late Bob Oatley AO, BEM, is as fascinating and engaging as her performance when racing on the high seas.

Bob, or “Popeye” as he was known to family and close friends, had an uncanny ability to inspire people into going beyond preconceived limits and achieving remarkable goals. Such was the case with Wild Oats XI . Never had such a sophisticated racer been created in such a short time frame – just 10 months – and never had a yacht had such an impact on the sailing scene and public arena within four weeks of being launched.

Wild Oats XI was built in Sydney by John McConaghy, an artisan acclaimed internationally as being among the very best when it comes to constructing racing yachts using space-age composite materials.

McConaghy is not sure how many boats he has built over the decades, but he is sure of one thing: “My No.1 project of all was Wild Oats XI ,” he said without hesitation.

“It’s the best build I’ve ever been involved with, and making that even better was the fact that she has been so successful. Most importantly though, this was the project where we loved the owner; a project that was as good as it got.

Wild Oats XI , like her two smaller predecessors built by Bob Oatley, had a design feature that he, with the enthusiastic support of his skipper, Mark Richards, had introduced to offshore racing about five years earlier. It was a canting keel, one that swung from side to side so less ballast was needed to keep the yacht upright. World champion and America’s Cup yachtsman Iain Murray, who today sails as tactician aboard Wild Oats XI , describes the concept this way: “The canting keel has probably been the largest single design element that has increased the speed of yachts ever. It’s like sticking a giant V8 engine in a Toyota Corolla.

Wild Oats X I would represent the ultimate application of this technology.

In 2003 Bob led the Australian team to victory in the prestigious Admiral’s Cup international team event in Cowes, England. He entered the original Wild Oats XI and had Mark Richards as skipper. That yacht’s speed was enough for him to commission the build of Wild Oats XI , the intention being that she would lead the defence team in the Admiral’s Cup, but due to circumstances beyond his control, that series never eventuated.

Then, in early 2005, Bob and his eldest son, Sandy, went to McConaghy’s boat-building facility on Sydney’s northern beaches and saw a 30-metre long canting-keel racing yacht being built for Kiwi yachtsman, Neville Crichton, and to be named A lfa Romeo . Its target was line honours in the Sydney Hobart race at the end of the year.

Bob was so excited by what he saw that he would have bought that yacht there and then had it been offered for sale – but it wasn’t. Mark Richards recalls: “Having seen Alfa Romeo , Bob said to me ‘I think I’m going to buy one of those’ and I said, ‘Are you serious?’. He simply said ‘Yep’, and he did! I actually tried to talk him out of it, but he was already on a roll.”

The Hobart race start was 11 months away, which meant that the new yacht would need to be launched within 10 months – and no racing yacht that size and so complex had ever been built in that time anywhere in the world. But that didn’t deter Bob Oatley.

He put the entire project together in one weekend. John McConaghy confirmed that if everything fell into place he could build the yacht in the desired time. Then, after the designers, mast and sailmakers and all equipment suppliers had all confirmed they could meet the deadline, Bob pressed the go button on the Monday morning.

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1998 Viking 55' Wild Oats

This vessel is no longer on the market.

"Wild Oats" is one fine example of Viking's 55 Convertible. Powered with MTU Series 1800's 1150 hp, she cruises 30 knots and tops out at 34 knots. They were surveyed by Johnson & Towers July 2008. Beautifully appointed interior she has three staterooms, two heads and a washer/dryer. Excellent display of electronics to include, Furuno, Northstar, SEA, Simrad and Icom. Take a look at the full specs for detailed information.

Specifications

• Price USD: $ 379,000

55 Convertible

Cape may, new jersey, united states, power yacht.

• LOA: 55 ft 0 in
• Display Length: 55 ft

Sport Fishing

• Water Capacity: 200 gals
• Fuel Capacity: 1300 gals
• Engine Details: MTU Series 1800
• Engine 1: 1998 3300.00 HRS 1150.00 HP
• Engine 2: 1998 3300.00 HRS 1150.00 HP
• Engine Fuel: Diesel
• Days on Market: INQUIRE

+ Accommodations

Enter salon from the starboard. To port is an Ultraleather couch with storage below and teak table. Across from couch is the ships electrical panel, storage cabinets, and a Danby wine chiller. Dinette is forward and to starboard. Dinette has storage below seating and high gloss teak table. Across from dinette is the galley. Viking luxury decor includes a light color sofa, dark green dinette cushions, valances, and Hunter Douglass silhouette blinds.

Master Stateroom is Down and to Port: Queen berth with two end tables that have storage and reading lamps. Berth has gas shocks with storage below and drawers below. Large hanging locker and cabinets. TV/VCR and Cruise Air Thermostat. Private head with stall shower, sink, vanity, mirrors, and linen locker. To Starboard from Master is Crews Quarters: Upper and lower bunks with storage below lower bunk. Full size hanging locker/closet. Private access to guest head. Cruise Air Thermostat. VIP Stateroom is Forward: Queen berth on centerline with gas shocks and storage below. Drawers below berth. Hanging locker and wall cabinets. TV/VCR. Cruise Air Thermostat. Private access to guest head. Washer/Dryer Concealed in Companionway. Central Vacuum.

• New Furuno NavNet 3D 12" Screen
• New Furuno Touchscreen
• Forward Stateroom New Flat Screen TV
• Master Stateroom New Flat Screen TV
• Salon New Flat Screen TV
• Brand New Norpro Generator 20kw with 20 Hours
• Updated and New Bridge Cushions
• New Cockpit Cover
• New Carpeting and Carpet Runners
• Undercounter Subzero Refrigerator and Freezers with Ice Maker
• Microwave/Convection Oven
• 4 Drawers 5 Double Cabinets
• 3 Burner Recessed Stove
• Corian Countertops and Sink
• Trash Compactor

+ Electronics

• Furuno NavNet 3D 2 Units
• Furuno Radar
• Chartplotter and Sounder
• New Simran AP24 Autopilot
• 2 Icom IC-M504 VHF's
• New Fusion Stereo
• Wavetalk Satellite Phone
• Ritchie Compass
• Chart Light
• Palm Beach Helm Pod with Single Lever Controls

+ Electrical

• Onan 20KW Generator 3,052 Hours
• Pressure Water System
• KVH Satellite TV
• 220V AC Electrical System
• 24V DC Electrical System
• Battery Parallel
• Eskimo Ice Maker with Diverter Valve
• Cruise Air Reverse Cycle
• Battery Charger
• 3 Bilge Pumps
• High Water Alarms
• Engine Alarms
• Engine Room Blowers
• Navigation Lights
• Cabin Lighting
• Cabin Outlets
• Hardtop with 3 Sided EZ2CY Enclosure
• Rocket Launcher off Aft Rail
• Spreader Lights
• Courtesy Lights
• Forward L-Shaped Bench Seat with Storage
• Port Side Bench Seat with Storage
• Two Stidd Ultraleather Helm Chairs Raise Up and Down Automatically
• Flybridge Sink with Freshwater Washdown
• Recessed Electric Teaser Reel Box in Hardtop
• Electric Teaser Reels
• Bow Rail with Pulpit
• Anchor Locker
• 3 Bomar Hatches
• Glendinning Cablemaster
• Saltwater and Freshwater Washdowns
• Coast Guard Safety Package
• Rupp Triple Spreader Outrigger
• Center Rigger
• Murray Brothers Fighting Chair
• Engine Room Access
• Drink Box in Step
• Tackle Lockers
• Cockpit Freezer
• Transom Fish Box
• Ice Box in Deck
• In Deck Fishbox
• Lazarette Access
• Cockpit Sink
• 4 Rod Holders
• 6 Rod Holders on Bridge Wings in Cockpit

+ Engine Room

• Oil Transfer System
• Engine Sync
• Fuel Shut Off Valves
• Halon Automatic and Manual Fire Suppression System
• Electric Heads with Overboard Discharge and Holding Tank
• Freshwater Cooling System
• Hydraulic Power Steering
• Dual Racor Fuel Filters on Each Engine
• Both engines surveyed 7/2008 by Johnson and Towers
• New Vulcan Couplers May 2009
• All New Motor Mounts May 2009

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*Engine hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.

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Mark Richards and Sandy Oatley unveiled Wild Oats XI's latest modifications.

Mark Richards and Sandy Oatley unveil newly modified Wild Oats XI

Mark ‘Richo’ Richards and Sandy Oatley have unveiled Wild Oats XI’s newest modifications at Woolwich Dock. The supermaxi has just undergone major reconstructive surgery after chopping 35 feet from the bow and 7 from the stern to create a longer bow.

Wild Oats XI has been in the sheds at McConaghy Boats in Mona Vale since returning from the Transpac Race earlier this year. Mark Richards described the modifications in terms of plastic surgery, breast augmentation, nose job, ear tuck and more, but was sure we would see the maxi launch out of the water on Boxing Day.  And when asked why they didn’t build Wild Oats XII he explained the cost difference, “It would cost $25m to build a new boat, this cost us $2m.”

And as Sandy Oatley put it, “It would look exactly like this.” 

Wild Oats XI is expected to have her first sail this weekend, she will then be training throughout December and competing in the  SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on December 15. 

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Basic Information

Builder: VIKING Category: Sport Fisherman Sub Category: Convertible Model Year: 1998 Year Built: 1998 Country: United States Fly Bridge: Yes Cockpit: Yes

LOA: 55' 0" (16.76m) Beam: 17' 0" (5.18m) Max Draft: 4' 10" (1.47m)

Speed, Capacities and Weight

Cruise Speed: 30 Kts. (35 MPH) Max Speed: 34 Kts. (39 MPH) Displacement: 68800 Pounds Water Capacity: 200 Gallons Fuel Capacity: 1300 Gallons

Accommodations

Hull and deck information.

Hull Material: Fiberglass

Engine Information

Engines: 2 Manufacturer: MTU Model: 1800 Engine Type: Inboard Fuel Type: Diesel

Introduction

WILD OATS is one fine example of Viking's 55 Convertible. Powered with MTU Series 1800's 1150hp, she cruises 30 knots and tops out at 34 knots.  They were surveyed by Johnson & Towers July 2008. Beautifully appointed interior she has three staterooms, two heads and a washer/dryer.  Excellent display of electronics including: Furuno, NorthStar, SEA, Simrad and Icom.  Take a look at the full specs for detailed information.

• Brand New Norpro Generator 20kw  20 hours
• New Furuno NavNet 3D  12" Screen
• New Northstar 6100i
• FWD Stateroom New Flatscreen TV
• Master Stateroom New Flatscreen TV
• Salon New Flatscreen TV

Enter Salon from the starboard.  To port is an Ultra leather couch with storage below and teak table.  Across from couch are the ships electrical panel, storage cabinets, and a Danby wine chiller.  Dinette is forward and to Stbd. Dinette has storage below seating and high gloss teak table.  Across from dinette is the galley. Viking luxury decor includes a light color sofa, dark green dinette cushions, valances, and Hunter Douglass silhouette blinds.

Master Stateroom

Vip stateroom.

• VIP Stateroom is FWD
• Queen berth on centerline w/gas shocks & storage below
• Drawers below berth
• Hanging locker and wall cabinets
• Cruise Air thermostat
• Private access to guest head
• Washer/Dryer concealed in companionway
• Central Vacuum

Guest Cabin

• Upper and lower bunks with storage below lower bunk
• Full size hanging locker/closet
• Under counter Subzero Refrigerator and Freezers with Ice Maker
• Microwave/Convection Oven
• 4 Drawers 5 Double Cabinets
• 3 Burner Recessed Stove
• Corian Counter Tops and Sink
• Trash Compactor
• Bow Rail w/Pulpit
• Anchor Locker
• 3 Bomar Hatches
• Glendenning Cablemaster
• Saltwater and Freshwater wash downs
• USCG Safety Package
• Rupp Triple Spreader Outrigger
• Center Rigger
• Murray Brothers Fighting Chair
• Engine Room Access
• Drink Box in Step
• Tackle Lockers
• Cockpit Freezer
• Transom Fish Box
• Ice Box In Deck
• In Deck Fish box
• Lazarette Access
• Cockpit Sink
• 4 Rod Holders
• 6 Rod Holders on Bridge Wings in Cockpit

Helm, Flybridge & Electronics

Engine room.

• Oil Transfer System
• Engine Sync
• Fuel Shut Off Valves
• Halon Automatic and Manual Fire Suppression System
• Electric Heads with Overboard Discharge and Holding Tank
• Freshwater Cooling System
• Hydraulic Power Steering
• Dual Racor Fuel Filters on Each Engine
• Both engines surveyed 07/08 by Johnson & Towers
• New Vulcan Couplers May 2009
• All New Motor Mounts May 2009

Yacht name «Wild Oats» – VIKING is for sale and located in Cape May, New Jersey, USA.

Sport Fisherman Convertible «Wild Oats» built by manufacturer VIKING in 1998 — available for sale. Yacht location: USA. If you are looking to buy a yacht «Wild Oats» or need additional information on the purchase price of this VIKING, please call: +1-954-274-4435 (USA)

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