DARK HORSE
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DARK HORSE — GBR 8960R

Model: Swan 80

Nautor SwanGerman Frers

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DARK HORSE (GBR 8960R) is a Swan 80 designed by German Frers and built by Nautor Swan. She has been racing since 2023. She sails with a shallower keel than most Swan 80s.

DARK HORSE GBR 8960R - German Frers - Nautor Swan

Racing record

Races with at least six boats

1

Race start

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Wins

0%

Podiums

394.2s/mile

Rating 2023

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Length

24.75 m

81′ 2″

Beam

5.95 m

Draft

4.16 m

Displacement

38.1 t

Sail area

330 m²

On the podium

Where DARK HORSE finishes when she goes racing.

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Wins

0

Seconds

0

Thirds

1

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 DARK HORSE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.

  • Italy151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar20234

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Round 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: 1 race over 10 NM carry a published distance.

Who she races against

The boats DARK HORSE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.

Other competitors (14)

Met too few times for a figure.

TESTACUORERACE (Cookson 50, 1 meeting), FANTAGHIRO (Swan 42, 1 meeting), CARBONITA (Neo 570, 1 meeting), MINDFULNESS (Advanced 80, 1 meeting), ARYA (X-50, 1 meeting), ARS UNA (Adria, 1 meeting), EXCALIBUR (X-35, 1 meeting), CHESTRESS 3 (J/122, 1 meeting), SCRICCA (Comet 38 (Vallicelli), 1 meeting), CLAN (Impala 36, 1 meeting), MELAGODO (First 34.7, 1 meeting), BLACK BULL (First 36.7, 1 meeting), CHILAVISTA (Bonin 31, 1 meeting), FOMALHAUT (First 36.7, 1 meeting)

Speed at every angle

DARK HORSE's speed at every angle, wind by wind.

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At 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.

Other Swan 80s racing

Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.

More about the Swan 80

Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.

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