KWANZA — SWE 88
Model: Fareast 28
With the same sail number: TEAM PRO4U · First 36.7 · 2019–2025
Updated
KWANZA (SWE 88) is a Fareast 28 designed by Simonis Voogd and built by Fareast Boats. She has been racing since 2026 and has won 15 races, six of them in a row in 2026. Against a typical Fareast 28 she is quicker on a beam reach.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats19
Race starts
15
Wins
84%
Podiums
93
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 KWANZA finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
84%
of 19 starts · Fareast 28 fleet: 20%
Wins
79%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with KWANZA on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Klaipėda ORC European Championship202611214151
Sandhamn Open 2026 - Swedish Championship in Offshore Racing (ORCi)202611411- Marstrand Big Boat Race2026111111
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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
88%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 2 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
1 more race without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats KWANZA meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (16)
Other competitors (17)
Met too few times for a figure.
PATENT 4 (Italia 9.98, 6 meetings), FIREFLY (X-35, 6 meetings), LA PRIMERA (Sun Fast 3600, 6 meetings), VINDRUS (Xp 33, 6 meetings), FARRARI (Farr 30, 6 meetings), BELLATRIX (X-35, 6 meetings), ALSYDBANK (X-35, 6 meetings), PANDION (XR 41, 5 meetings), OXYGEN (X-41, 5 meetings), JOINT VENTURE 4.0 (X-41, 5 meetings), ANDIAMO (Farr 30, 5 meetings), ALMAVIVA (First 40, 5 meetings), YRSA (Arcona 340, 5 meetings), HEIST (Ker 40, 5 meetings), THE TROOPER (Farr 30, 5 meetings), NEMO ROSSO (Ker 40, 5 meetings), MATADOR (Elliott 44, 5 meetings)
How KWANZA 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 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Fareast 28 on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
KWANZA in blue, a typical Fareast 28 dashed.
KWANZA 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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