Fareast 28
Fareast Boats · Simonis Voogd · 2015
Updated
The Fareast 28 is a 8.52 m planing racing yacht designed by Simonis Voogd and built by Fareast Boats, first launched in 2015. It races in Sportboat. Across the measured fleet it goes better than its own numbers promise, ahead of 93% of the designs it races against. It comes alive as the breeze builds, and gives time away in the light.
Goes better than its own measurements promise, and does it better than 93% of the boats it races against.
3rd of 28 in its class.
Not verified. On planing hulls this score has no match in the race results we hold: designs scoring the same win anywhere from one race in ten to seven in ten. Read it as what the measurements say, not as a ranking.
This design has been found in real race results — 94 starts across 19 events — not only in measurement files.
Length
8.52 m
27′ 11″
Beam
2.79 m
Draft
1.71 m
Displacement
1.3 t
Sail area
47 m²
On the podium
Where a Fareast 28 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
20%
of 94 starts by 11 boats
Wins
17%
Read from 94 starts by 11 boats between 2018 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Fareast 28 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
4ª Golfo dei Poeti Cup2026- 59° Trofeo Fiorillo2026
Klaipėda ORC European Championship2026- Lei & Lui - Tino x22026
Sandhamn Open 2026 - Swedish Championship in Offshore Racing (ORCi)2026
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
25%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
13%
of these races end on the podium
Sharper round the buoys. Short courses reward acceleration and manoeuvring, and that is where this design makes its money.
Who she races against
The designs a Fareast 28 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Some of the boats it races against
How the Fareast 28 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
4.99
40°
Beam reach
9.81
90°
Broad reach
13.33
135°
Downwind VMG
11.06
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 running deep once it pipes up, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage off the wind as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short on the beat in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is a hull that wants to get up and go, and needs pressure to do it.
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 3.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the broad reach.
How fast is a Fareast 28
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.56 | 4.73 | 4.94 | 4.99 |
| 52° | 5.46 | 6.87 | 7.17 | 7.35 |
| 60° | 5.77 | 7.15 | 7.57 | 7.83 |
| 75° | 5.99 | 7.46 | 8.23 | 8.73 |
| 90° | 5.93 | 7.46 | 8.84 | 9.81 |
| 110° | 6.13 | 8.04 | 9.19 | 10.91 |
| 120° | 6.00 | 8.17 | 9.77 | 11.66 |
| 135° | 5.40 | 7.59 | 9.93 | 13.33 |
| 150° | 4.54 | 6.70 | 8.51 | 12.77 |
| Run VMG | 3.93 | 5.81 | 7.37 | 11.06 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Most run a fixed propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 430 kg.
Rigging
Fareast 28 rig and sail dimensions
A Fareast 28 carries 10.65 m of mainsail hoist on a 3.75 m boom, a forestay 10.47 m above the deck and a 5.31 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 45 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 66 to 83 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.