DOUBLE SUCCESS AT WORLD SUPERYACHT AND FOILING AWARDS

– May 7th 2024

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Raven is a game-changing superyacht in a class of her own, with a highly original concept – the first ever superyacht to use America’s Cup-style T-foils to support a large proportion of her displacement under sail.

Established in 2005, the World Superyacht Awards – dubbed the “Oscars” of the superyacht world – are today the most coveted trophies in the superyacht industry. At the 2024 World Superyacht Awards, It seemed to the judges almost unfair to compare this high- performance sailing machine to the rest of the nominees in the Sailing Yachts 30m to 39.9m category. It was decided that Raven was an exceedingly worthy recipient of a Judges’ Special Award, a prestigious recognition that’s bestowed on a yacht that has excelled yet doesn’t easily fit into the category norms in which she was entered.

Raven’s owner wanted to build a yacht capable of fast, thrilling sailing. Every detail was questioned to minimise her weight, resulting in a yacht weighing about half of a more conventional equivalent, and flying at twice the speed. Notably, Raven isn’t a stripped-out racer masquerading as a superyacht. Her Jarkko Jämsén interior is fully fitted out. The yacht’s advanced composite structure becomes part of the interior decor, revealing some of the engineering.

Botin Partners utilised its existing knowledge of America’s Cup foil technology and worked closely with Baltic Yachts, Pure Engineering and Southern Spars to define the parameters of how foils could work on a superyacht of this scope.