K'MENA — ITA 17630
Model: J/99
With the same sail number: PALINURO · J/99 · 2020
Updated
K'MENA (ITA 17630) is a J/99 designed by Rod Johnstone and built by J/Boats. She has been racing since 2024. She sails with a deeper keel than most J/99s. Against a typical J/99 she is quicker upwind in light air.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats2
Race starts
0
Wins
50%
Podiums
82
Race Edge
J/99: 84
547.4s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
9.95 m
32′ 8″
Beam
3.41 m
Draft
2.00 m
Displacement
3.9 t
Sail area
60 m²
On the podium
Where K'MENA finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
2
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 K'MENA on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Campionato Invernale West Liguria202493
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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: 1 race 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 K'MENA 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.
BIG BANG (Melges 32, 2 meetings), MISS K CHECKMATE (Swan 45, 2 meetings), AURORA (Canard 41, 2 meetings), MATADOR (First 44.7, 2 meetings), SHE IS THE ONE (Solaris 48, 2 meetings), FLIPPER ONE (Mylius 11, 2 meetings), CRAB (Solaris 44, 2 meetings), IL PINGONE DI MARE IIII (J/112, 2 meetings), SUSPIRIA THE REVENGE (Swan 42, 1 meeting), FAREWELL IV (Solaris 44, 1 meeting), SARCHIAPONE (Italia 9.98, 1 meeting), HARU (Comet 41, 1 meeting), DAL VERDE AL BLU (First 35 (Farr), 1 meeting), MELISSA (Baltic 50, 1 meeting)
How K'MENA compares with a typical J/99
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, J/99s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical J/99; 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 sails level with a typical J/99 across the course.
Speed at every angle
K'MENA in blue, a typical J/99 dashed.
K'MENA in blue, a typical J/99 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other J/99s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the J/99
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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