SEA QUILL — IVB 4466
Model: Swan 60
Updated
SEA QUILL (IVB 4466) is a Swan 60 designed by German Frers and built by Nautor Swan. She has been racing since 2024 and has won five races, four of them in a row in 2024. She sails with a larger sail plan and a deeper keel than most Swan 60s. Against a typical Swan 60 she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats8
Race starts
5
Wins
75%
Podiums
80
Race Edge
412.3s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
18.94 m
62′ 2″
Beam
5.33 m
Draft
3.49 m
Displacement
24.8 t
Sail area
209 m²
On the podium
Where SEA QUILL finishes when she goes racing.
5
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
8
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 SEA QUILL on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Rolex Swan Cup20267351- Rolex Swan Cup20241111
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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: 1 race of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 7 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats SEA QUILL meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (8)
Met too few times for a figure.
COCO DE MER (Swan 62, 4 meetings), DEFIANCE (Swan 68, 4 meetings), MARLIN II (Swan 65 (Frers), 4 meetings), ASANA (Swan 60, 4 meetings), MONTRACHET (Swan 60, 4 meetings), DURLINDANA IV (Swan 601, 4 meetings), SALPARE (Swan 66, 4 meetings), CORUMBE V (Swan 66, 4 meetings)
How SEA QUILL compares with a typical Swan 60
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Swan 60s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Swan 60; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 2.2 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Swan 60 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
SEA QUILL in blue, a typical Swan 60 dashed.
SEA QUILL in blue, a typical Swan 60 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Swan 60s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Swan 60
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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