Millenium 40
Starmarine · Marco Lostuzzi · 2003
Updated
The Millenium 40 is a 12.00 m planing racing yacht designed by Marco Lostuzzi and built by Starmarine, first launched in 2003. It races in Class B.
Length
12.00 m
39′ 4″
Beam
4.02 m
Draft
2.66 m
Displacement
5.6 t
Sail area
104 m²
On the podium
Where a Millenium 40 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
23%
of 52 starts by 6 boats
Wins
10%
Read from 52 starts by 6 boats between 2015 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Millenium 40 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
EST 1052026- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2026
- ORC DH World Championship2025
- Campionato Italiano ORC - Triestina della Vela2025
- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2025
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
24%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
27%
of these races end on the podium
Level across both. Plenty of designs fall away once the course gets long — a light hull that thrives round the cans can struggle through a night at sea. This one does not.
Who she races against
The designs a Millenium 40 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Rodman 42 (7 meetings), X-40 (7 meetings), Xp 38 (7 meetings), Grand Soleil 43 (Maletto) (7 meetings), Figaro 2 (6 meetings), Sun Odyssey 49 (5 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Millenium 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
5.90
37°
Beam reach
9.61
90°
Broad reach
12.20
135°
Downwind VMG
9.93
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.
The stronger it blows, the better this design looks. 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 does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage on a broad reach 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 1.2 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the downwind.
How fast is a Millenium 40
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 4.25 | 5.42 | 5.74 | 5.90 |
| 52° | 6.37 | 7.67 | 7.96 | 8.16 |
| 60° | 6.68 | 7.89 | 8.21 | 8.46 |
| 75° | 6.97 | 8.12 | 8.61 | 9.00 |
| 90° | 6.95 | 8.24 | 8.92 | 9.61 |
| 110° | 6.94 | 8.43 | 9.31 | 10.30 |
| 120° | 6.75 | 8.54 | 9.57 | 11.12 |
| 135° | 6.12 | 8.22 | 9.70 | 12.20 |
| 150° | 5.14 | 7.45 | 8.79 | 11.46 |
| Run VMG | 4.45 | 6.45 | 7.62 | 9.93 |
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 720 kg.
Rigging
Millenium 40 rig and sail dimensions
A Millenium 40 carries 17.02 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.70 m boom, a forestay 16.92 m above the deck and a 6.96 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 6 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 168 to 239 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.