ferrari reveals monohull yacht hypersail that sails without using fuel

Ferrari’s monohull yacht Hypersail uses foils to float

Ferrari introduces the Hypersail project, a 100-foot monohull yacht that can fly over water without using any fuel. Designed by French naval architect Guillaume Verdier, the water vehicle uses foils to stay afloat. They’re like underwater wings that lift the boat partially out of water to reduce drag and increase speed. While sailing, The monohull yacht Hypersail of Ferrari can balance itself on three points. One is a foil attached to a special canting keel, which is a moving part under the boat that helps it stay upright and adds speed.

The second contact point is a foil on the rudder, which helps steer. The third is one of the two side foils, depending on which direction the boat is turning. For the first time too, Ferrari’s monohull yacht Hypersail expects to be the first of its size to be fully energy self-sufficient. Because of this, the water vehicle will not use any fuel or combustion engine at all, but it will draw from renewable sources like solar power, wind power as well as kinetic energy, or the energy created by the movement of the boat itself, thanks to the underwater foils.

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Italy-made water vehicle to launch in 2026

The design team says there’s no backup engine on board Ferrari’s monohull yacht Hypersail, so they have to plan how much energy each part uses and how much energy they can collect and store during the trip. With this, everything on board runs only through the energy that the water vehicle produces on its own during sailing, including the systems that control the foils, keel, and rudder, and the computers and instruments. The team then is working on optimizing every part of the yacht to make each system as efficient as possible, even small changes like using lighter materials or improved software, so long as each tweak can help reduce the energy use.

These ‘optimizing’ techniques can also lead to Ferrari’s monohull yacht Hypersail to keep on sailing well even at risen water levels and tough weather conditions. The car manufacturer also takes on the challenge of having a yacht that can sustain its own energy while at the same time still keep up with the fast speed it generates during sailing. The person leading the project is Giovanni Soldini, the team principal of the Hypersail team. Ferrari also brings its technical experts, including people from their car division, to work closely with nautical engineers and specialists. The Hypersail yacht is being built in Italy, and the team expects it to be launched in 2026. After that, it will begin its first sea trials, where it will be tested in real conditions to see how it performs, understand how the boat behaves, how the systems work together, and how well it can handle long trips using only renewable energy and its foils.

Ferrari introduces the Hypersail project, a 100-foot monohull yacht that can fly over water without using any fuel