BEST BUDDIES — GER 4908
Model: Swan 441
Updated
BEST BUDDIES (GER 4908) is a Swan 441 designed by Ron Holland and built by Nautor Swan. She has been racing since 2024. She sails with a larger sail plan and a deeper keel than most Swan 441s. Against a typical Swan 441 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats4
Race starts
0
Wins
25%
Podiums
38
Race Edge
524.7s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
13.52 m
44′ 4″
Beam
4.05 m
Draft
2.45 m
Displacement
12.9 t
Sail area
116 m²
On the podium
Where BEST BUDDIES finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
4
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Regattas
Every regatta we found with BEST BUDDIES on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Rolex Swan Cup20245536
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 4 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats BEST BUDDIES meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (10)
Met too few times for a figure.
FROM NOW ON (Swan 45, 4 meetings), CLEM PRIMERO (Swan 56, 4 meetings), TENGHER (Swan 45, 4 meetings), RETARDE (Swan 58, 4 meetings), VERTIGO (Swan 54, 4 meetings), LULLABY (Swan 58, 4 meetings), SILVEREN SWAEN (Swan 54, 4 meetings), BIG EASY III (Swan 48 (Frers), 4 meetings), ANANDA (Swan 48 (Frers), 4 meetings), VESPER (Swan 48, 4 meetings)
How BEST BUDDIES compares with a typical Swan 441
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Swan 441s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Swan 441; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Swan 441 on the upwind.
Speed at every angle
BEST BUDDIES in blue, a typical Swan 441 dashed.
BEST BUDDIES in blue, a typical Swan 441 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Swan 441s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Swan 441
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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