Ferrari getting into ocean racing isn’t quite as left-field as it sounds. John Elkann has been crossing the Atlantic with Italian sailing legend Giovanni Soldini for years, and the brand has been flirting with the water since the Arno XI hydroplane set a world record on Lake Iseo in 1953.
Still, when Maranello announced its next endurance project would happen at sea, the question wasn’t whether Ferrari had the chops. It was what that would actually look like. We finally got our answer at Milan Design Week, and it looks bananas.
Le Mans, But Wet
Ferrari isn’t framing the Hypersail as a yacht. They’re framing it as the next chapter of a brand that just won Le Mans three years running with the 499P. Ocean racing is endurance taken to its most unhinged extreme: 30 days at sea, no pit crew, weather doing whatever it wants.
The boat itself is a 100-foot, 20-meter-wide carbon monohull with a 40-meter mast, built to fly. Two T-foils, a rudder foil, and a foil tied to a canting keel lift the hull clear of the water at speed, balancing the whole thing on three contact points. America’s Cup AC75s do something similar, but those are inshore sprinters. Pulling this off at scale, on the open ocean, for weeks at a time, is something else entirely.
Yellow, Not Red
Now let’s talk about the elephant in the room, which is yellow. Ferrari skipped Rosso Corsa entirely, going instead with Giallo Fly, the brand’s so-called “second soul” that first appeared on the 275 GTB in 1964 and traces back to F1 driver Luigi Musso’s yellow helmet. The “Fly” part is the wink: a yellow that already meant something, attached to a boat that, well, flies.
The yellow runs across the cabin, foils, hull lines, and the elongated “F” logo on the mainsail (a motif lifted from Ferrari’s 2023/2024 F1 wing). Everything else wears Grigio Hypersail, a new gray meant to advertise the carbon underneath rather than cover it up. The split echoes the 1970s 512 BB, the proportions nod to the Monza SP1/SP2, and the coachroof is straight off the 499P.
The Sun Does the Work
Now for the spec that might catch many of you off guard: there is not a single combustion engine on board. None. Instead, there is roughly 100 square meters of walkable solar panels baked into the deck and topsides, producing up to 20 kW, with wind and kinetic recovery handling the rest. Every system on the boat, from the foil hydraulics to the navigation computers, runs on energy generated while sailing.
The flight control software, meanwhile, is lifted directly from Ferrari’s road car suspension systems. Foilers adjust their wings hundreds of times a second to stay level, which isn’t all that different from active suspension reacting to a curb at Spa. Tech developed for the upcoming Ferrari Elettrica is also making its way onto the boat making this a rolling test bed for the brand’s electrification roadmap as much as it is a race boat.
Spec Sheet
Brand: Ferrari
Model: Hypersail
Length: 100 ft (30 m)
Beam: 20 m
Mast Height: 40 m
Hull Material: Carbon fiber
Configuration: Full-foiling monohull
Stabilization: Three-point (canting keel foil, rudder foil, two lateral foils)
Energy: ~100 sq m integrated solar panels (~20 kW), plus wind and kinetic recovery
Combustion Engine: None
Naval Architect: Guillaume Verdier
Livery: Grigio Hypersail / Giallo Fly
Build Location: Pisa, Italy
Launch: Late summer 2026
Pricing & Availability
The Hypersail is a one-off prototype, not a production yacht, so there’s no public price and no order book. It’s slated to launch from Ferrari’s Pisa shipyard no earlier than September, with sea trials to follow ahead of an eventual run at major ocean records. Until then, the project is on display at the Ferrari Flagship Store in Milan through April.
Recap
Ferrari Hypersail Yacht
Ferrari’s first ocean racing yacht is a 100-foot foiling carbon monohull that flies on three contact points, runs entirely on solar and kinetic energy, and ditches red for yellow. Welcome to Ferrari’s Le Mans at sea.
