Wally 143 gently lowered into the water

The latest design to be gently lowered into the water at Fano in Italy was the Wally 143, which will soon become a 43 metre very highly specified sloop.  No further details were available from Wally, only to say that a previous project thwe Wally 148 closer to 48 metres had a displacement of 150 tons, a ballast 40 tons and a sail area of 836 m! 

Every detail is redesigned

Richard Hammond from BBC's Top Gear was fortunate enough to be taken out on this vessel, which seems to have been the result of a bet to see if you can design and make a boat using only straight lines.  But the final creation would not look out of place on a George Lucas Movie.

However on the specification side, it displaces some 95 tons but can still notch up 60 knots from it's awesome 3 times 5,600HP engines.  That's 16,800HP in total that's over 33 BMW M5's at 507HP pushing you along the water.  I know for sure that if you were lucky enough to be able to drive something like this around no-one would ever think you were a wally.

Stunning Wally 118 design