HANG LOOSE — BVI 740473
Model: Dufour 40
Updated
HANG LOOSE (BVI 740473) is a Dufour 40 designed by Umberto Felci and built by Dufour. She has been racing since 2025. She sails with a smaller sail plan than most Dufour 40s. Against a typical Dufour 40 she is quicker downwind, and slower upwind in light air.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats6
Race starts
0
Wins
17%
Podiums
22
Race Edge
Dufour 40: 34
543.5s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.06 m
39′ 7″
Beam
3.89 m
Draft
2.08 m
Displacement
7.8 t
Sail area
85 m²
On the podium
Where HANG LOOSE finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
6
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 HANG LOOSE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
36th Marmaris International Race Week20253612121211
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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: 4 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 2 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats HANG LOOSE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (12)
Met too few times for a figure.
PUPA (First 34.7, 6 meetings), LETTLAND (First 36.7, 6 meetings), BLUE X (X-302, 6 meetings), M2 (Dehler DB1, 6 meetings), SPACE (First 34.7, 6 meetings), GEMII (Azuree 33, 6 meetings), EMILY (Gib Sea 33, 6 meetings), IZMIR YELKEN (Mat 101, 6 meetings), ALEKSANDRIYA (First 31.7, 6 meetings), ENCHANTMENT OF SAKHALIN (Bavaria Vision 42, 6 meetings), NORD STAR (Dufour 36, 6 meetings), ISKORPIT (Sun Fast 3200, 6 meetings)
How HANG LOOSE compares with a typical Dufour 40
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Dufour 40s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Dufour 40; 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 Dufour 40 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
HANG LOOSE in blue, a typical Dufour 40 dashed.
HANG LOOSE in blue, a typical Dufour 40 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Dufour 40s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Dufour 40
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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