Draft:NZL 40 (sailing yacht)
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Other names | NZL-40 |
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Yacht club | Yacht Club d'Antibes |
Nation | France |
Class | International America's Cup Class |
Sail no | FRA-40 (also NZL-40) |
Designer(s) | Doug Peterson, Jim Taylor |
Builder | Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats |
Launched | 1994 |
Owner(s) | Be Happy syndicate |
Fate | Scrapped |
Racing career | |
America's Cup | 1995 |
Specifications | |
Type | Monohull |
Displacement | 24 tons (ballast 19 tons) |
Length | 22 m (72 ft) (LOA) 18.5 m (61 ft) (LWL) |
Beam | 4.9 m (16 ft) |
Draft | 4.0 m (13.1 ft) |
Sail area | 350 m2 (3,800 sq ft) |
Crew | 16 |
Notes | |
Sailed as tourist charter in Auckland and Sydney until scrapped |
FRA 40 (also known as NZL-40 and Be Happy) was a former America's Cup boat designed and built for the 1995 America's Cup. The yacht was owned by the French Be Happy syndicate sponsored by the Yacht Club d’Antibes but was not completed in time and never raced.