MELIPLOE — GRE 1815
Model: First 42 (Farr)
Updated
MELIPLOE (GRE 1815) is a First 42 designed by Bruce Farr and built by Beneteau. She has been racing since 2019 and has won 11 races, three of them in a row in 2019. Against a typical First 42 she is slower upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats30
Race starts
11
Wins
77%
Podiums
7
Race Edge
First 42: 9
553.3s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.69 m
41′ 8″
Beam
4.13 m
Draft
1.82 m
Displacement
9.1 t
Sail area
90 m²
On the podium
Where MELIPLOE finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
77%
of 30 starts · First 42 fleet: 43%
Wins
37%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with MELIPLOE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Aegean Regatta20263114- Aegean Regatta202512372
- Aegean Regatta2024831261
- Pagasitikos Regatta20244
- Trofeo Eolos Liappi20243
- 22th Aegean Regatta20231123
- Aegean Regatta2022361318
- Trofeo Laki Zamani20223
- Aegean Regatta20191112
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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
75%
of these races end on the podium
3 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats MELIPLOE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (40)
Other competitors (57)
Met too few times for a figure.
ANTELOPE (Xp 44, 5 meetings), KOURSAROS (X-372, 5 meetings), ADRA (First 31.7, 5 meetings), HAPPYHOUR (Oceanis 50, 5 meetings), KALIMERA (Yca 29, 5 meetings), NEARCHOS (Yca 29, 5 meetings), O PANORMITIS (Sea Mini, 5 meetings), PANAGIA DESPOINA (Rush 31, 5 meetings), TOMAHAWK (First 45 (Farr), 5 meetings), ANATELOUSSA AFRODITI (First 34.7, 5 meetings), OKYALOS V (X-3, 5 meetings), EQUINOX (X-372, 5 meetings), BLUE DOG V (X-99, 5 meetings), ARTEMIS (Dufour 34, 5 meetings), VELA (Bavaria C50, 5 meetings), SARANAIA V (Grand Soleil 45 (Judel/Vrolijk), 5 meetings), TOLMI (First 32, 5 meetings), KAMAYA V (Sun Odyssey 34.2, 5 meetings), KATSARIDA (Dufour 29, 5 meetings), KOUZINI (Atlantic 31, 5 meetings), ALBATROS (Olympic 42, 5 meetings), EXIT (First 34.7, 4 meetings), ISIDOROS (First 28, 4 meetings), KYMOTHOE (Grand Soleil 343, 4 meetings), ATHOS (Dromor 26, 4 meetings), SEVEN SEAS (First 45 (Farr), 4 meetings), COURRIER DU COEUR (First 44.7, 4 meetings), FIDELIO (Grand Soleil 40 (Paperini), 4 meetings), FILIRA (Grand Soleil 37 (Design), 4 meetings), MANOULI TOO (Sun Odyssey 45.1, 4 meetings), SIMERA (Bavaria 350, 4 meetings), MYTILANA (Sun Legende 41, 4 meetings), GIORGIO (Elan 40, 4 meetings), KLEONIKI (First 305, 4 meetings), NIKEA (Bavaria Cruiser 46, 4 meetings), SMILE 3 (First 305, 4 meetings), HAKUNA MATATA (Bavaria 44, 4 meetings), NELA (Oceanis 370, 4 meetings), VERTIGO (Sunrise, 4 meetings), BELKA (First 40.7, 4 meetings), PIPIT (Bavaria 36, 4 meetings), NAUTILUS VI (Dufour 38, 4 meetings), SYLVIA (Dufour 34, 4 meetings), CALYPSO (Discovery 300, 4 meetings), NORTH WIND I (Bavaria Match 35, 4 meetings), ATHINA (Hood 38, 4 meetings), SUTTON BONINGTON (Dufour 3800, 4 meetings), MAXIMA (Platu 25, 3 meetings), ANDROMEDA (Platu 25, 3 meetings), PROTEAS (Oceanis 321, 3 meetings), PARASKEVI (Atlantic 31, 3 meetings), ORFEAS (Sadler 32, 3 meetings), HAKUNA MATATA (Bonin 358, 2 meetings), DAMSON (Sunrise 35, 2 meetings), MYTHOS (Sun Odyssey 35, 1 meeting), ANEMOS (Oceanis 46.1, 1 meeting), ESCAPE (Albin Ballad, 1 meeting)
How MELIPLOE compares with a typical First 42
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, First 42s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical First 42; 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 42 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
MELIPLOE in blue, a typical First 42 dashed.
MELIPLOE in blue, a typical First 42 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other First 42s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the First 42 (Farr)
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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