OPTION B — ITA 17982
Model: Comet 51
With the same sail number: COMET A · Comet 51 · 2023
Updated
OPTION B (ITA 17982) is a Comet 51 designed by Andrea Vallicelli and built by Comar. She has been racing since 2025 and has won 1 race. She sails with a smaller sail plan and a deeper keel than most Comet 51s. Against a typical Comet 51 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats3
Race starts
1
Win
33%
Podiums
62
Race Edge
472.2s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
15.04 m
49′ 4″
Beam
4.69 m
Draft
2.56 m
Displacement
13.0 t
Sail area
140 m²
On the podium
Where OPTION B finishes when she goes racing.
1
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
3
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 OPTION B on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata dei Cinque Fari20259- Regata Brindisi-Corfù202518
- Regata Siracusa-Malta20251
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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: no 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 OPTION B meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (46)
Met too few times for a figure.
TRESAMIS (Elan 410, 2 meetings), A'NICA (Farr 30, 1 meeting), SOUTH KENSINGTON (First 35 (Farr), 1 meeting), QUATTROGATTI (Comet 45, 1 meeting), COCHINA (First 40, 1 meeting), SEKELES (M 37, 1 meeting), QQ7 (Vismara 41, 1 meeting), SAGOLA (Farr 45, 1 meeting), LOUP SOLITAIRE (Sly 42, 1 meeting), CALYPSO 3.0 (Farr 30, 1 meeting), DUC IN ALTUM (Grand Soleil 37 (Design), 1 meeting), AURORA (Comet 51, 1 meeting), TANGO (Hanse 548, 1 meeting), SAN MARY (Dufour 40, 1 meeting), CUORE DI ALIANTE (Aa 38, 1 meeting), DIMM (First 45 (Farr), 1 meeting), DENEB (First 36.7, 1 meeting), AMMUINA (First 40.7, 1 meeting), BUENA VISTA (Fy 61, 1 meeting), LAVORO (Mumm 36, 1 meeting), SOFT (Dufour 40, 1 meeting), X-LION (X-35, 1 meeting), TIVAN (Grand Soleil 44 (Polli), 1 meeting), VISION (Sun Odyssey 440, 1 meeting), STELLA K (Bavaria 40, 1 meeting), GRANDE CESARE (Grand Soleil 40 (Paperini), 1 meeting), PANAMA II (First 40.7, 1 meeting), LUDUAN RELOADED (Grand Soleil 46 (Carkeek), 1 meeting), SACRIPANTE (Comet 45, 1 meeting), WOJOWNIK 8 (Caravela 950, 1 meeting), BOLLICINE (Sun Odyssey 42 (Lombard), 1 meeting), DADDY COOL (Comet 45, 1 meeting), FREEDOM (Sun Odyssey 440, 1 meeting), ANGELICA II (Sciarrelli, 1 meeting), CLEOPATRA (First 40.7, 1 meeting), ROTGIPFLER (Elan S5, 1 meeting), MOMIX (Sun Odyssey 49, 1 meeting), MY BEST LOVE (Bavaria Match 42, 1 meeting), FLASH (Farr 39, 1 meeting), SHAMADI (X-482, 1 meeting), CANOPUS (First 36.7, 1 meeting), HYDRA (Comet 36, 1 meeting), MORGANA (Sun Odyssey 42 (Lombard), 1 meeting), FALCON II (Baltic 43, 1 meeting), MIROS 3 (Bavaria C45, 1 meeting), BARON (Oceanis 461, 1 meeting)
How OPTION B compares with a typical Comet 51
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Comet 51s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Comet 51; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 1.2 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Comet 51 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
OPTION B in blue, a typical Comet 51 dashed.
OPTION B in blue, a typical Comet 51 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Comet 51s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Comet 51
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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