MERIDIANA I
Class CHeavy displacementCruiser/Racer

MERIDIANA I — ITA 17635

Model: Fax 33

ZuanelliAlain Jézéquel

With the same sail number: MERIDIANA · Fax 33 · 2025

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MERIDIANA I (ITA 17635) is a Fax 33 designed by Alain Jézéquel and built by Zuanelli. She has been racing since 2021. Against a typical Fax 33 she is quicker downwind, and slower upwind in light air.

MERIDIANA I ITA 17635 - Alain Jézéquel - Zuanelli

Racing record

Races with at least six boats

1

Race start

0

Wins

0%

Podiums

600.6s/mile

Rating 2022

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Length

9.60 m

31′ 6″

Beam

3.23 m

Draft

1.81 m

Displacement

4.6 t

Sail area

56 m²

On the podium

Where MERIDIANA I finishes when she goes racing.

0

Wins

0

Seconds

0

Thirds

1

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 MERIDIANA I on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.

  • Italy151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2021126

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Round 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: no races 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 MERIDIANA I meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.

Other competitors (26)

Met too few times for a figure.

MIZAR (First 31.7, 1 meeting), MEDEA (Dufour 40, 1 meeting), DRAKAR (Dufour 34, 1 meeting), ALASTOR (Elan 310, 1 meeting), SERENDIPITY 2 (H&r 412, 1 meeting), WHY NOT (Grand Soleil 34 (Finot), 1 meeting), MANICCHIA (Dufour 34, 1 meeting), FREYA (Schooner, 1 meeting), MADEJA (JOD 35, 1 meeting), HERO (First 47.7, 1 meeting), BOLOLOMBO (Grand Soleil 43 (Design), 1 meeting), LA BELLE (Bavaria 44, 1 meeting), BLUE HORIZON (Hanse 375, 1 meeting), PIKI (Hanse 400e, 1 meeting), ALCAM (First 36.7, 1 meeting), BLUE STAR (Oceanis 510, 1 meeting), KRILL (Genesi 43, 1 meeting), ALEMARO (Neo 400, 1 meeting), HAKUNA MATATA (JOD 35, 1 meeting), JUST A JOKE (Archambault 35, 1 meeting), ANTOJO (J/92, 1 meeting), CORTO MALTESE (First 34.7, 1 meeting), AIGYLION (Grand Soleil 34 (Skyron), 1 meeting), XAMAN EK (Dehler 44, 1 meeting), HAKUNA MATATA (Hanse 430, 1 meeting), AMNESIA (First 47.7, 1 meeting)

How MERIDIANA I compares with a typical Fax 33

Her main 2022 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Fax 33s measured since 2025.

Above the line she is quicker than a typical Fax 33; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.

True wind
Upwind+0.00 kn
Beam reach+0.02 kn
Broad reach+0.07 kn
Downwind+0.07 kn

Full width is 0.4 kn either way.

At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Fax 33 on the broad reach.

Speed at every angle

MERIDIANA I in blue, a typical Fax 33 dashed.

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MERIDIANA I in blue, a typical Fax 33 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.

Other Fax 33s racing

Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.

More about the Fax 33

Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.

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