HEAT WAVE — USA 12207
Model: Mat 122
Updated
HEAT WAVE (USA 12207) is a Mat 122 designed by Mark Mills and built by MAT. She has been racing since 2024. She sails with a larger sail plan than most Mat 122s. Against a typical Mat 122 she is quicker upwind in light air, and slower on a beam reach.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats8
Race starts
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Wins
0%
Podiums
58
Race Edge
471.9s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.21 m
40′ 1″
Beam
3.97 m
Draft
2.52 m
Displacement
5.3 t
Sail area
95 m²
On the podium
Where HEAT WAVE finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
8
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 HEAT WAVE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
- ORC World Championship20241115141819181818
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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: 6 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 HEAT WAVE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
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How HEAT WAVE compares with a typical Mat 122
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Mat 122s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Mat 122; 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 gives away time to a typical Mat 122 on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
HEAT WAVE in blue, a typical Mat 122 dashed.
HEAT WAVE in blue, a typical Mat 122 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Mat 122s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Mat 122
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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