{"id":246,"date":"2025-08-07T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:55:59","slug":"worlds-coolest-yachts-wallygator-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Coolest Yachts: Wallygator II"},"content":{"rendered":"

We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest yachts of our times. Vasco Vascotto nominates Wallygator II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis was the boat that represented the style of Wally and was the first large yacht really able to sail fast,\u201d recalls Vascotto.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember having an iconic picture in my house of it sailing from Monaco to Porto Cervo, reaching along at 25 knots\u2026 and this was at an IOR time when the maximum speed was around 10 knots, so this was another level!<\/p>\n

\u201cThen add the colour [green] and the double mast \u2013 it was indeed something that was 20 years ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallygator II, (now Nariida), was the first all-carbon big yacht, including a full lightweight honeycomb interior fitout and hydraulics package.<\/p>\n

It was designed by Luca Brenta and Luca Bassani and built by Concordia Custom Yachts. The poster to which Vasco is referring is the incredible photograph by Franco Pace above.<\/p>\n

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

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Photo: Carlo Borlenghi\/SEA&SEE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wallygator II stats rating<\/h2>\n

Top speed:<\/strong> 20+ knots
\nLOA:<\/strong> 32m\/105ft
\nLaunched:<\/strong> 1994
\nBerths:<\/strong> 8+4
\nEstimated price:<\/strong> \u20ac20million
\nAdrenalin factor:<\/strong> 70%<\/p>\n

Vasco Vascotto<\/h2>\n

Vasco Vascotto, 56, from Trieste, has won more world championships (25) in more classes than probably any other sailor in the world. He now spearheads the new Wally raceboat era as tactician for the Django programme, including the wallyrocket51 (page 72) in the Admiral\u2019s Cup this summer, and the even newer wallyrocket71.<\/p>\n

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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest yachts of our times. Vasco Vascotto nominates Wallygator II \u201cThis was the boat that represented the style of Wally and was the first large yacht really able to sail fast,\u201d recalls Vascotto. \u201cI remember having an iconic picture in my house of it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}