FAR WEST — ITA 17648
Model: Fareast 28
Updated
FAR WEST (ITA 17648) is a Fareast 28 designed by Simonis Voogd and built by Fareast Boats. She has been racing since 2025. Against a typical Fareast 28 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats9
Race starts
0
Wins
11%
Podiums
96
Race Edge
Fareast 28: 93
525.5s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Not verified. On planing hulls this score has no match in the race results we hold. Read it as what the measurements say, not as a ranking.
Length
8.52 m
27′ 11″
Beam
2.79 m
Draft
1.71 m
Displacement
1.3 t
Sail area
47 m²
On the podium
Where FAR WEST finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
1
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 FAR WEST on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
4ª Golfo dei Poeti Cup20265- 59° Trofeo Fiorillo20267
- Lei & Lui - Tino x220267
- Trofeo Vejo e Claudio Sampiero20261
- 3ª Golfo dei Poeti Cup20256
- 58° Trofeo M.O.V.M. Michele Fiorillo20253
- Trofeo Yacht Club Parma - Memorial Roberto Allodi20254465
Is there a race missing?Send us the results and we will add them here.
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: 6 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 3 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats FAR WEST meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (15)
Met too few times for a figure.
VALHALLA (Grand Soleil 37 (Carkeek), 6 meetings), JECO (J/112, 5 meetings), EL SOLETE (Sinergia 40, 5 meetings), MAGIA BLU (First 40.7, 5 meetings), FOMALHAUT (First 36.7, 4 meetings), MINIMA (X-34, 4 meetings), FANTAGHIRO (Swan 42, 4 meetings), GIUMAT+2 (Millenium 45, 4 meetings), BELLATRIX (Italia 11.98, 4 meetings), MELAGODO (First 34.7, 2 meetings), BAGUA (Farr 30, 2 meetings), TESEO 2000 (Comet 38 (Finot), 2 meetings), SOTTOSOPRA AND MORE (More 50, 1 meeting), O.C.ESSE (Esse 850, 1 meeting), X-PRESS (IMX 40, 1 meeting)
How FAR WEST compares with a typical Fareast 28
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Fareast 28s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Fareast 28; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Fareast 28 on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
FAR WEST in blue, a typical Fareast 28 dashed.
FAR WEST in blue, a typical Fareast 28 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Fareast 28s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Fareast 28
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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