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DEEP BLUE — CAY 85

Model: Botin 85

BotniaBotín & Carkeek

Updated

DEEP BLUE (CAY 85) is a Botin 85 designed by Botín & Carkeek and built by Botnia. She has been racing since 2024. She sails with a shallower keel than most Botin 85s. Against a typical Botin 85 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.

DEEP BLUE CAY 85 - Botín & Carkeek - Botnia

Racing record

Races with at least six boats

9

Race starts

0

Wins

33%

Podiums

304.2s/mile

Rating 2022

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Length

26.01 m

85′ 4″

Beam

6.54 m

Draft

6.75 m

Displacement

24.7 t

Sail area

462 m²

On the podium

Where DEEP BLUE finishes when she goes racing.

0

Wins

0

Seconds

3

Thirds

9

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 DEEP BLUE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.

  • ItalyMaxi Yacht Rolex Cup2025783556
  • ItalyMaxi Yacht Rolex Cup2024338

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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: 2 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.

Offshore & coastal

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Not enough data yet: 7 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.

Who she races against

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

DEEP BLUE aheadRival ahead
MY SONG · ClubSwan 8067%ahead in 6 of 9 meetings

How DEEP BLUE compares with a typical Botin 85

Her main 2022 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Botin 85s measured since 2025.

Above the line she is quicker than a typical Botin 85; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.

True wind
Upwind+0.05 kn
Beam reach+0.14 kn
Broad reach+0.16 kn
Downwind+0.13 kn

Full width is 0.4 kn either way.

At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Botin 85 on the broad reach.

Speed at every angle

DEEP BLUE in blue, a typical Botin 85 dashed.

30°60°90°120°150°WIND

DEEP BLUE in blue, a typical Botin 85 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.

More about the Botin 85

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

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