Windelo 54

Design

Naval architect

Barreau/Neuman

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category A · LOA 16.24 m · fresh water 400 L

• Performance Cruising

  From the published figures: SA/D 37.0 (upwind 199 m², displacement 12800 kg) · 4 cabins

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 16.24 m · 4 cabins · fresh water 400 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Price

List price

€1,550,000

As published

1 550 000€ EX-VAT

Price basis

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VAT

Not included

Price as of

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Dimensions

LOA

53.3 ft (16.24 m)

Hull length

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LWL

—

Beam

26.2 ft (7.98 m)

Draft (min)

3.4 ft (1.05 m)

Draft (max)

7.7 ft (2.35 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

28,219 lb (12,800 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

4

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

1,066 ft² (99 m²)

Jib

484 ft² (45 m²)

Genoa

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Sail area

2,142 ft² (199 m²)

Downwind sail area

3,111 ft² (289 m²)

Rig type

Sloop

Engine and Tanks

Engine

—

Engine count

2

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

shaft drive

Fuel capacity

132 gal (500 L)

Fresh water capacity

106 gal (400 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

Basalt and PET/PVC foam sandwich

Deck material

—

Keel type

Daggerboard

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Generator

17.9 kW

Gennaker area

190 m2

Blackwater tank

200 l

Foresail area

45 m2

Batteries park

1120 Ah 48V battery bank (53.8 kWh)

Engines power

2 x 20 kW

Brochure

About Windelo

Premium production

French builder of eco-friendly sailing catamarans, headquartered and built at its shipyard in Canet-en-Roussillon, Occitania.

Windelo was founded by Olivier Kauffmann, who ran Orangemarine and Cabesto and chaired Decathlon France, with Gautier Kauffmann, who came from Orangemarine's business and marketplace side and now runs operations. The boats are drawn by Christophe Barreau and Frédéric Neuman, naval architects with a long record in production performance catamarans -- the Catana 471, the Outremer 45, 49 and 51, the TS3 and TS5 -- and the problem they set themselves was the old antagonism of the type: sailing performance and the pleasure of steering against generous living space, resolved here by gathering helm and handling at the centre of the boat and putting the living space aft in the nacelle. The structure is an eco-composite sandwich developed with Patrick Ienny and Didier Perrin at the materials centre of IMT Mines Alès, using secondary raw materials that match virgin petroleum-based ones on the mechanical specification. After a year spent building it, the team moved into its own 1,600-square-metre factory in March 2020 at Canet-en-Roussillon in Occitanie, on a 4,000-square-metre quayside plot with room to grow to 10,800. Design office, component manufacture, assembly, fit-out, supply chain and sales are all inside the same building.

The Windelo Range

Every model Windelo publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Windelo 6261.9 ft
2. Windelo 5858 ft
3. Windelo 54· this model53.3 ft
4. Windelo 5050 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

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