BLUE MAGIC — BUL 880
Model: First 40.7
Updated
BLUE MAGIC (BUL 880) is a First 40.7 designed by Bruce Farr and built by Beneteau. She has been racing since 2020 and has won two races. Against a typical First 40.7 she is slower on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats44
Race starts
2
Wins
16%
Podiums
10
Race Edge
First 40.7: 26
531.0s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
11.92 m
39′ 1″
Beam
3.77 m
Draft
2.42 m
Displacement
7.1 t
Sail area
94 m²
On the podium
Where BLUE MAGIC finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
16%
of 44 starts · First 40.7 fleet: 11%
Wins
5%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with BLUE MAGIC on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Friendship Regatta20261099131157- Friendship Regatta20258883111919
- Friendship Regatta2024131418132012
Regatta Cor Caroli Next Consult20226106111010- Regatta Port Varna - General Broker Cup20225575
- Regatta Fair Play Cup20221122223111
- Fair Play Cup20211041251258448
- Aegean 600202114
- 20th Regatta Cor Caroli Icard202034553
- Regatta "Kaliakria Cup - 2020"2020355
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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
10%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
11%
of these races end on the podium
Level across both. Plenty of designs fall away once the course gets long — a light hull that thrives round the cans can struggle through a night at sea. This one does not.
15 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats BLUE MAGIC meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (20)
Other competitors (48)
Met too few times for a figure.
ALEXA X (X-41, 7 meetings), ARION (First 27 (Mauric), 7 meetings), NORTH WIND I (Bavaria Match 35, 7 meetings), STELLA (Bavaria Cruiser 38, 7 meetings), KONDOR (Dufour 51, 7 meetings), BLUE DOG V (X-99, 7 meetings), CHOCOLATE 3 (Farr 52, 6 meetings), STRIPPTEASE (Tripp 40, 6 meetings), PLANETA X (X-412, 6 meetings), SARANAIA V (Grand Soleil 45 (Judel/Vrolijk), 6 meetings), NESSUN DORMA (First 40.7, 6 meetings), EQUINOX (X-372, 6 meetings), VICTORIA II (Sun Odyssey 37.1, 6 meetings), ITANOS (Bavaria 37, 6 meetings), DIVA (Sun Light 30, 6 meetings), ALEXA A (JPK 11.80, 6 meetings), RONIN (Melges 24, 5 meetings), MOWGLI (Sun Fast 32, 5 meetings), CHOCOLATE (Farr 40, 5 meetings), EXTASY (First 40.7, 5 meetings), SHIMAZEN (First Class Challenge, 5 meetings), PROXIMA (Conrad 24, 5 meetings), WHITE WING (First 211, 5 meetings), DEA (Elan 36, 5 meetings), ELEANOR (Bavaria C45, 5 meetings), BLOSSOM (Dufour 35, 5 meetings), OXYGEN (Melges 24, 3 meetings), NORD BURGAS (Conrad 25, 3 meetings), DARINA (Apollo 12, 3 meetings), OPTIMUM 3 (Farr 52, 1 meeting), BLUR (J/111, 1 meeting), ARTEMIS (X4.6, 1 meeting), ANTELOPE (Xp 44, 1 meeting), SETSAIL (Swan 42, 1 meeting), PHAEDRA (Hanse 508, 1 meeting), AIOLIA (J/11, 1 meeting), TETRAKTYS (Figaro 2, 1 meeting), EROS (Pogo 50, 1 meeting), FOXY LADY (Xp 44, 1 meeting), ATLAS (Dehler 30 OD, 1 meeting), ELYSEA (Hanse 320, 1 meeting), TATTOO (Dufour 405, 1 meeting), EIXURIT (Pogo 30, 1 meeting), COMRADE (Dufour 45, 1 meeting), MY WAY (Rodman 42, 1 meeting), VENTO CADELA (Dc 120, 1 meeting), PREFERISCO (Azuree 40, 1 meeting), ZITTA ZITTA (Xp 44, 1 meeting)
How BLUE MAGIC compares with a typical First 40.7
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, First 40.7s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical First 40.7; 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 gives away time to a typical First 40.7 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
BLUE MAGIC in blue, a typical First 40.7 dashed.
BLUE MAGIC in blue, a typical First 40.7 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other First 40.7s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the First 40.7
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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