A maxi yacht usually refers to a racing yacht of at least 21 metres (70 ft) in length.
Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with offices in Newport, Rhode Island and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new and existing vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a ship and yacht brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts.
Oy Nautor AB is a Finnish producer of luxury sailing yachts, based in Jakobstad. It is known for its Nautor's Swan range of yachts models. The company was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä.
C&C Yachts was a builder of high-performance fiberglass monohull sailboats with production facilities in Canada, Germany, and the United States. C&C designed and constructed a full range of production line cruiser-racer boats, as well as custom one-off and short production run racing and cruising boats. C&C boats ranged in size from as small as 21 ft (6.4 m) to as large as 67 ft (20.4 m). C&C also produced a line of bluewater cruising boats in the 35 ft (10.7 m) to 48 ft (14.6 m) range under its Landfall brand. In addition, C&C designed sailboats for production by a number of other manufacturers such as CS Yachts, Mirage Yachts, Northern Yachts, Ontario Yachts, Paceship Yachts, and Tanzer Industries.
Germán Frers Sr. is Argentinian a naval architect known for designing racing yachts. He designed his first yacht in 1958 and has been involved in the design of more than 1000 yachts, including Kialoa V and Hyperion, which, when launched in 1997 was the largest sloop ever made.
The Swan 45 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a one design racer-cruiser and first built in 2001.
Swan 36 is a fin keeled, fiberglass constructed masthead sloop first manufactured by Nautor's Swan in 1967. The first Swan sailing yacht ever produced by the firm, it was designed to serve recreationally but also compete in the One Ton Cup.
The Swan 65 is a large fibreglass fin+keeled masthead ketch- or sloop-rigged sailing yacht design, manufactured by Nautor's Swan. It was introduced as the new flagship of Nautor in 1973. At the time of its launch it was the largest glass reinforced plastic (GRP) constructed yacht in the market and because of its excellent racing history, one of the most famous Swan models ever built. The first 65-footers were delivered to owners in 1973, and the production continued until 1989 with 41 hulls built in total.
Swan 37 is a GRP constructed, fin keeled, one tonner masthead sloop and successor to the Swan 36. It was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and manufactured by Nautor Oy between 1970 and 1974 with total of 59 boats being built. Sparkman & Stephens designed the Americas Cup winner Intrepid with a trim tab on the trailing edge of the keel. S&S used the same trim tab on at least some of the early Swan 37s. Measured by racing success, Swan 37 is one of the most successful Swan yachts ever built and it is famous for winning the Round Gotland Race on six occasions in four decades by a yacht called Tarantella II. At least two Swan 37 boats Dulcinea and Trishna are known to have circumnavigated the world. As part of that circumnavigation, Dulcinea participated in the Cape to Rio race in 1976. She is still actively sailed under the same name in the US. In the US market Swan 37 was also marketed as Palmer Johnson 37.
The ClubSwan 42, also called the Club Swan 42 and the New York Yacht Club 42 , is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a one design racer-cruiser and first built in 2005.
The Swan 46 Mk III, also called the Swan 461 and the Swan 46-3, is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a cruiser and first built in 2004.
The Swan 39 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland as an International Offshore Rule (IOR) racer and a cruiser and first built in 1978.
The ClubSwan 50 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian as a one design and International Rating Certificate racer-cruiser, first built in 2015. The interior was designed by Michele Bönan.
The Swan 54 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a blue water cruiser and first built in 2015. The interior was designed by Heini Gustafsson.
The Swan 115 is a Finnish superyacht sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a racer-cruiser and first built in 2015. The design was built in both fixed keel and lifting keel versions as well as with two deck configurations, flush deck ("FD") and raised salon ("S").
The Swan 80-2 is a Finnish maxi yacht sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a cruiser-racer and first built in 2010. The design was built in two models, with two different decks, the "FD" with a flush deck and the "S" with a raised salon.
The C&C 37/40 is a Canadian 12.05 metres (39.5 ft) LOA fibreglass monohull sailing yacht, designed in 1988 by Robert W. Ball of Cuthbertson & Cassian as a replacement for the earlier C&C 37 dating from 1981. The C&C 37/40 is a recreational keelboat of moderate displacement, intended as a cruiser/racer or oceangoing racer. The yachts have a masthead sloop rig, with a fin keel and an internally-mounted spade-type rudder. Over 110 of the 37/40 type were built before the Canadian plant closed in 1994. The design is no longer produced.
The Swan 48-3 Frers is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers, as a blue water cruiser and first built in 2019. The interior design is by Misa Poggi.
The Swan 55 Frers is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a blue water cruiser-racer and first built in 2021. The interior design is by Misa Poggi.
The ClubSwan 80 is a Finnish maxi yacht that was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian as a one design racer and first built in 2022.
