Astraea 330
ASTRAEA · Jacques Fauroux · 2000
Updated
The Astraea 330 is a 9.97 m semi-displacement racing yacht designed by Jacques Fauroux and built by ASTRAEA, first launched in 2000. It races in Class C.
Length
9.97 m
32′ 9″
Beam
3.23 m
Draft
1.90 m
Displacement
3.5 t
Sail area
54 m²
On the podium
Where a Astraea 330 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
68%
of 62 starts by 2 boats
Wins
39%
Read from 62 starts by 2 boats between 2023 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Astraea 330 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Lliga Creuers2026- XXX Lliga Social CMPO2026
- Lliga Creuers2025
- XXIX Lliga Social CMPO2025
- XIII Badalona al Quadrat2025
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
65%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
—
Not enough data yet: 9 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Astraea 330 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Tofinou 950 (6 meetings), First 27.7 (1 meeting), TP 52 (Carkeek) (1 meeting), First 32 (1 meeting), First 36.7 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Astraea 330 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
5.11
39°
Beam reach
8.41
90°
Broad reach
9.70
135°
Downwind VMG
7.89
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
It needs pressure to show what it can do. Give it a fresh day and long legs and it delivers more than it promised; in a drifter it is working uphill.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on a broad reach when it blows, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage running deep as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
There is no condition where it falls away badly, which is worth something over a season of mixed weather.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.8 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Astraea 330
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.34 | 4.58 | 4.98 | 5.11 |
| 52° | 5.11 | 6.62 | 7.05 | 7.23 |
| 60° | 5.38 | 6.83 | 7.27 | 7.51 |
| 75° | 5.58 | 6.99 | 7.52 | 7.99 |
| 90° | 5.58 | 7.10 | 7.73 | 8.41 |
| 110° | 5.60 | 7.27 | 8.07 | 8.93 |
| 120° | 5.40 | 7.18 | 8.15 | 9.49 |
| 135° | 4.80 | 6.81 | 7.86 | 9.70 |
| 150° | 4.03 | 6.14 | 7.35 | 8.81 |
| Run VMG | 3.48 | 5.33 | 6.56 | 7.89 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Roughly half carry a folding propeller. Crew weight is declared around 430 kg.
Rigging
Astraea 330 rig and sail dimensions
A Astraea 330 carries 12.27 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.53 m boom, a forestay 11.66 m above the deck. Typical figures across the 4 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 59 to 66 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.