LADY BLUE — BUL 9192
Model: First Class Challenge
With the same sail number: SHIMAZEN · First Class Challenge · 2020–2024
Updated
LADY BLUE (BUL 9192) is a First Class Challenge designed by Jean-Marie Finot and built by Beneteau. She has been racing since 2025 and has won 1 race. She sails with a smaller sail plan than most First Class Challenges. Against a typical First Class Challenge she is slower upwind in light air and on a beam reach.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats10
Race starts
1
Win
10%
Podiums
74
Race Edge
589.4s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
9.15 m
30′ 0″
Beam
3.23 m
Draft
1.79 m
Displacement
2.6 t
Sail area
52 m²
On the podium
Where LADY BLUE finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
10%
of 10 starts · First Class Challenge fleet: 20%
Wins
10%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with LADY BLUE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
National Championship for Keel Boats202636954655
Bosphorus Cup2025864168
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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: 7 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.
1 more race without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats LADY BLUE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (17)
Met too few times for a figure.
OSTWIND (Bavaria Cruiser 45, 6 meetings), WASABI (X-332, 6 meetings), PUPA (First 34.7, 6 meetings), OPS (First 35 (Farr), 6 meetings), LADY DIANA (Bavaria Cruiser 45, 6 meetings), ADRIA (Grand Soleil 37 (Design), 6 meetings), BABY ONE (Bavaria Cruiser 38, 6 meetings), ZACAPA (Archambault 35, 6 meetings), ALEXA A (JPK 11.80, 4 meetings), METCH (Conrad 25, 4 meetings), LODOZ (Conrad 25, 4 meetings), ALEXA FIRST (First 36.7, 4 meetings), HYGEIA (Bavaria 46 (Farr), 4 meetings), ARROUTADO (Grand Soleil 42 (Carkeek), 4 meetings), BARBAYANI (Platu 25, 4 meetings), HARMONY (Farr 30, 4 meetings), EXTASY (First 40.7, 4 meetings)
How LADY BLUE compares with a typical First Class Challenge
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, First Class Challenges measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical First Class Challenge; 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 First Class Challenge on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
LADY BLUE in blue, a typical First Class Challenge dashed.
LADY BLUE in blue, a typical First Class Challenge dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other First Class Challenges racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the First Class Challenge
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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