{"id":115,"date":"2025-07-01T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:44:54","slug":"worlds-coolest-yachts-swan-55-galiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Coolest Yachts: Swan 55 Galiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest yachts of our times. Tapio Lehtinen nominates Swan 55 Galiana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cOlin Stephens had designed two 6 Metres before creating his breakthrough yawl, Dorade, in 1929 \u2013 a scaled-up ocean-going 6mR. Forty years later, the Swan 55 marked the end of his ocean racing yawl lineage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love feeling connected to this legendary chain of S&S yawls, including Stormy Weather<\/em>, Manitou<\/em>, Santana<\/em>, Baruna<\/em>, and Kialoa II<\/em>. In my opinion, the Swan 55 is the classiest and most beautiful design Nautor ever built,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Galiana<\/em> was built in 1970 and raced in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. \u201cThe S&S yawl offers exceptional sailing performance combined with comfort and seaworthiness. Galiana<\/em> will take me safely anywhere on the planet. The yawl rig makes sailing enjoyable, with many sail combinations. I particularly enjoy using classic sails like the mizzen staysail and blooper,\u201d Lehtinen adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cGaliana<\/em> is also a fantastic cruiser. I plan to enter major RORC events and the Bermuda Race before attempting the Ocean Globe Race in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

Make sure you check out our full list of\u00a0Coolest Yachts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: Tapio Lehtinen\/OGR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Swan 55 Galiana<\/em><\/a> stats rating<\/h2>\n

Top speed: 20 knots
\nLOA: 16.8m\/55ft 2in
\nLaunched: 1970
\nBerths: 12
\nPrice: \u20ac200,000
\nAdrenalin factor: 60%<\/p>\n

Tapio Lehtinen<\/h2>\n

Tapio Lehtinen is a Finnish around the world sailor who has twice competed in the single-handed Golden Globe Race<\/a>, finishing 5th in 2018. He also skippered Galiana<\/em> in the crewed Ocean Globe Race. Lehtinen took part in the Whitbread Race aged 23 and is a passionate supporter of youth sailing, racing Galiana with a young Finnish crew.<\/p>\n

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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest yachts of our times. Tapio Lehtinen nominates Swan 55 Galiana \u201cOlin Stephens had designed two 6 Metres before creating his breakthrough yawl, Dorade, in 1929 \u2013 a scaled-up ocean-going 6mR. Forty years later, the Swan 55 marked the end of his ocean racing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}