A leading example of the YCUSTOM division’s excellence is the YC/Tripp 90, a 90-foot carbon sloop designed by American naval architect Bill Tripp. The interiors, crafted by London-based superyacht design leader Winch Design, enhance her splendor. The yacht was launched in May 2021 for an international client who plans to participate in regattas and cruises around the world.

On the one hand, we have made sure to equip the best-in-class interiors, with volumes equivalent to a 100-foot sailboat. On the other hand, avoiding exaggerated lengths, the YC/Tripp 90 adapts perfectly to a human dimension, without useless spaces that are difficult to manage and maintain.

It’s a sailboat with great value and exquisite finishes, with great navigation capabilities. She has been designed for long, fast cruises around the world, and for great adventures in which the boat sets sail for unknown places, crossing oceans, discovering islands.

Bill Tripp is the designer of the YC/Tripp 90, a collaboration between him and Michael Schmidt Yachtbau. In his own words, this sailboat marks a goal that many other designers and owners will aspire to, a boat with exceptional finishes and optimal navigation capacity, with only 3 crew members. Tripp highlights this sailboat’s carbon construction and the invisible nature of the technology, which goes completely unnoticed for much more comfortable navigation.

Toby is one of the yachting industry’s most respected journalists, with a wealth of sailing experience that began with his family, sailing on various boats as a child, through to the world of racing and teaching. He has also crewed large yachts professionally before becoming editor of Yachting Monthly after five years with the publication.

Toby remains responsible for boat testing and new yacht coverage at Yachting World, as well as editing the Supersail world and Multihulls supplements. He is also part of the jury for the European Yacht of the Year award.  

One of our most demanding projects to date was the construction of the sailboat “Eugen Seibold”, a highly innovative yacht designed for environmental research. We received this order from the Swiss Werner Siemens Foundation and delivered the finished yacht in autumn 2018.

Since then, the “Eugen Seibold” is managed by the renowned Max Planck Institute so that scientists from all over the world can carry out climate and marine research. Professor Gerald Haug, current president of LEOPOLDINA (German Academy of Natural Scientists), director of the Max Planck Institute and professor at ETH Zurich, overcame many obstacles to steer this ambitious project into today’s welcoming waters.

The hull is mainly made of classic fiberglass, with carbon fiber reinforcements. Its elegant lines come from the pen of Lorenzo Argento. However, the requirements for the “Eugen Seibold” are very different from those for a private yacht. Due to its oversized hull, the research sailboat weighs at most 44 tons fully loaded with equipment.