Her most distinctive features include a canting keel, a divided sail plan with two equal masts allowing a crew of 25 to handle the sails manually, and a very light all-carbon structure.
Her impressive length of 44.4m (including bowsprit) and 9.5m beam is driven by a massive 1,415sqm of sail area. This gives her an astonishing 22 knots on a reach with just 15 knots of true wind. This impressive performance helped ‘Mari-Cha IV’ cover 1500 miles in three days on the record breaking transatlantic trip. On occasions, 30 knots were exceeded.
