Centurion 40
Wauquiez · Berret/Racoupeau · 2006
Updated
The Centurion 40 is a 12.33 m displacement racing yacht designed by Berret/Racoupeau and built by Wauquiez, first launched in 2006. It races in Class B. Across the measured fleet it goes better than its own numbers promise, ahead of 20% of the designs it races against. It is at its best in light air and struggles to hold that once it blows.
Goes better than its own measurements promise, and does it better than 20% of the boats it races against.
74th of 92 in its class.
Updated — First Race Edge for this design. Enough boats of this design have now been measured to rank it.
This design has been found in real race results — 28 starts across 11 events — not only in measurement files.
Length
12.33 m
40′ 5″
Beam
3.85 m
Draft
2.31 m
Displacement
8.6 t
Sail area
95 m²
On the podium
Where a Centurion 40 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
43%
of 28 starts by 7 boats
Wins
4%
Read from 28 starts by 7 boats between 2012 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Centurion 40 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
XXX Lliga Social CMPO2026
151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2026- XXIX Lliga Social CMPO2025
- Regata ADos2025
- 151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2025
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
60%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
—
Not enough data yet: 7 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Centurion 40 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Dufour 45 (7 meetings), Polaris 33 (6 meetings), First 31.7 (6 meetings), X-41 (6 meetings), Grand Soleil 44 (Judel/Vrolijk) (6 meetings), More 40 (7 meetings), Dufour 34 (5 meetings), Cobra 33 (5 meetings), Dufour 382 (5 meetings), Comet 45 (7 meetings), Sly 42 (4 meetings), Elan 333 (4 meetings), Oceanis 46.1 (4 meetings), Dufour 44 (4 meetings), Dufour 40 (4 meetings), First 40 (3 meetings), Brenta 24 (3 meetings), First 40.7 (4 meetings), Comet 12 (3 meetings), Elan 40 (3 meetings), X-362 (3 meetings), Show 42 (3 meetings), Canard 41 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 50 (Judel/Vrolijk) (7 meetings), J/133 (3 meetings), First 35 (Farr) (3 meetings), X-442 (3 meetings), First 47.7 (3 meetings), Hanse 630e (3 meetings), Sun Fast 37 (3 meetings), Rimar 36 (3 meetings), First 33.7 (3 meetings), Platu 25 (2 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Centurion 40 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
5.54
38°
Beam reach
8.75
90°
Broad reach
9.55
135°
Downwind VMG
8.27
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.
This one is at home going to windward. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beat once it pipes up, where it outruns what it looks like on paper. It holds that advantage downwind as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short cracked off once it pipes up, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
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 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Centurion 40
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.58 | 4.95 | 5.41 | 5.54 |
| 52° | 5.51 | 7.20 | 7.64 | 7.79 |
| 60° | 5.83 | 7.42 | 7.85 | 8.03 |
| 75° | 6.06 | 7.57 | 8.10 | 8.40 |
| 90° | 5.94 | 7.66 | 8.21 | 8.75 |
| 110° | 5.94 | 7.83 | 8.57 | 9.22 |
| 120° | 5.76 | 7.73 | 8.55 | 9.64 |
| 135° | 5.14 | 7.30 | 8.27 | 9.55 |
| 150° | 4.30 | 6.50 | 7.81 | 8.93 |
| Run VMG | 3.73 | 5.63 | 6.97 | 8.27 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 700 kg.
Rigging
Centurion 40 rig and sail dimensions
A Centurion 40 carries 14.93 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.86 m boom, a forestay 15.91 m above the deck and a 4.51 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 8 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 99 to 120 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.