COULEUR SOLEIL — FRA 39406
Model: Grand Soleil 43 (Carkeek)
Cantiere del PardoBotín & Carkeek
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COULEUR SOLEIL (FRA 39406) is a Grand Soleil 43 designed by Botín & Carkeek and built by Cantiere del Pardo. She has been racing since 2025 and has won seven races, four of them in a row in 2025. She sails with a larger sail plan and a deeper keel than most Grand Soleil 43s. Against a typical Grand Soleil 43 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats11
Race starts
7
Wins
64%
Podiums
18
Race Edge
Grand Soleil 43: 38
501.8s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.95 m
42′ 6″
Beam
3.92 m
Draft
2.38 m
Displacement
9.7 t
Sail area
98 m²
On the podium
Where COULEUR SOLEIL finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
64%
of 11 starts · Grand Soleil 43 fleet: 20%
Wins
64%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with COULEUR SOLEIL on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Campionato Invernale 2025/2026 XXXVI Edizione20268411- Campionato Invernale 2025/2026 XXXVI Edizione20251441111
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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: 6 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
5 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats COULEUR SOLEIL meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
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How COULEUR SOLEIL compares with a typical Grand Soleil 43
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Grand Soleil 43s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Grand Soleil 43; 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 Grand Soleil 43 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
COULEUR SOLEIL in blue, a typical Grand Soleil 43 dashed.
COULEUR SOLEIL in blue, a typical Grand Soleil 43 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Grand Soleil 43s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Grand Soleil 43 (Carkeek)
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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