The Yacht · PB72

A racing yacht
with a home inside

Seventy-two feet of carbon, a foil big enough to lift her clear of the sea. And air-conditioning, hot showers and real beds below.

Overview

Two boats
in one hull

Most fast boats ask you to choose: race, or live aboard. PB72 was built on the conviction that you shouldn’t have to.

Below nine knots of breeze she is a quick, quiet cruising catamaran, with a galley, proper cabins and an enclosed saloon behind a windscreen shaped for 40-knot apparent winds. Above eleven knots, the righting-moment foil takes the load, the windward hull lifts, and she becomes something else entirely.

Every sail control runs aft to a sheltered cockpit, so a crew of four on each watch can sail her fast and nobody needs to go forward at speed. Every system was weighed against a single rule given to the project on day one: fat birds don’t fly.

PB72 alongside the dock, lime-green hull and twin daggerboards raised
PB72 alongside · daggerboards raised

At rest

Proportion
before decoration

From the dock she reads simply: two slender carbon hulls, a low cabin pulled well aft, and a rig that towers 37 metres above the water. The lime-green hull carries the colour of the original Extreme H2O, which finished first among the multihulls at the 2015 Transpac.

Look closer and the engineering shows through: twin centreline daggerboards that lift clear of the water when not needed, a curved foil case in each hull, and T-foil rudders on conical titanium bearings.

Principal particulars

Length overall
21.95 m
72 ft
Beam
9.50 m
31 ft
Displacement
≈ 21.5 t
Racing, as built
Air draft
37 m
32.3 m carbon mast
Top speed
40+ kn
Predicted · 39 kn measured so far
Crew per watch
4
Two watches offshore

“It’s fun to go fast, period. And this is going fast by flying.”

Dr. Pat Benz · On why he built her
The lime foil tip breaking the surface beside the carbon bow

The difference

Lift, not
just speed

Conventional cruising catamarans carry their weight. PB72 is designed to shed it. A curved carbon foil roughly sixteen feet long reaches out from the leeward hull and generates enough lift to carry the yacht. A separate daggerboard handles leeway, so the foil can do one job perfectly.

Foils & flight control

The sea,
from above it

Sea trials

The Yacht

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Private enquiries

PB72 is in sea trials. Partnerships, racing programs, experiences and charter are discussed personally with our team.