Wild Horses

Wild Horses
Boat ID: 6898117

Wild Horses was the first W-Class W.76 launched in June of the 1998. She was designed by the late Joel White and built at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine. She has long, graceful and elegant overhangs, low freeboard and a subtle sheer that is higher at the bow than the stern. She’s truly a magnificent classic style sloop in appearance, yet, she’s outfitted with modern and state of the art cold molded hull, systems, electrical and rigging.

She comes equipped with carbon fiber spars/rod standing rigging, 3Di North Sails, sports a lead ballast bulb style fin keel and a spade rudder construction. She has a pair of two-speed coffee-grinder winch pedestals on center line ahead of the steering wheel which can be linked together and clutched to one of the four single, coaming-mounted winch drums for maximized man power to trim highly loaded sails.

 “The W.76s, were a kind of a synthesis of some of the late 12-Meters and the Herreshoff designed-and-built New York 50,” says current owner, Donald Tofias, “like a cross between the two time America’s Cup winner, Intrepid and the Herreshoff designed New York 50 Spartan.” 

Truly built for speed and beauty, she has proven that her design sails just as fast as it is beautiful to lay eyes upon. Time after time, she succeeds racing in the ‘Spirit of Tradition’ class, an internationally known class which combines classic style with modern speed. She has taken the win at countless classic yacht regattas such as the Panerai Classic Yacht series’ internationally, Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, Saint Barths Bucket Regatta in the Caribbean, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez/D’Antibes in France, Argentario Sailing Week in Tuscany, Italy, and many more. In the past 20 years she has secured victories and participated in hundreds races around the world.

Wild Horses is a legend in the prime of her racing career and she is meticulously maintained by her current owner/full-time crew. 

The W-Class was founded by commercial real estate broker, Donald Tofias, who combined his enthusiasm for sailing and classic yachts with his business experience to create a new class of racing boats. The first design was the W.76 with two boats launched in 1998, Wild Horses and her sister ship White Wings. The W-Class also designed/built the W-46, the W-37, and the W-22.

‘Wild Horses’ 2022 Refit

Conducted at Safe Harbor Shipyard Newport Rhode Island, ‘Wild Horses’ preformed an extensive refit in Fall of 2022. Replacement of the cutlass bearing, rudder bearing, and prop service coupled with a full replacement and upgrade to her electronics package makes ‘Wild Horses’ the premier racer / cruiser on the market today. The addition of a robust SIMRAD AP44 Autopilot and seamless integration of new electronics package into the cockpit area further enhances her capabilities. These new systems are hard to see as they have been fit into the existing hideaway compartments that boarder the cockpit which maintains her flush deck and spirit of tradition layout.

•  NEW cutlass bearing

• NEW Rudder bearing

• NEW Batteries (house, Life Cycle 3x*8D’s)

• NEW GARMIN Electronics package

• Chart Plotter (GPSMAP 943xsv 1x 16” and 1x 9” displays)

• RADARSAIL Instrumentation (gWind, GNX, GPS24xd NMEA 2000)

• NEW VHF

• NEW SIMRAD AP44 AUTOPILOT (WITH OP12 Controller)

• FULL ENGINE SERVICE (compression check, W3, LOW HOURS)

• PROP SERVICE

• NEW HEAD PLUMBING

• RENEWED SAFETY GEAR

• NEW DODGER

• NEW SAIL COVERS

• NEW FENDER COVERS

• NEW and REFRESHED SAIL INVENTORY

• NUMEROUS interior touch ups and repairs

Key Features:

Electronics Information:

• Kenwood Stereo with Pandora, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM Satilite Radio and CD Player

• Garmin GPSmap 5215 Software Version 7.70

• AIS600

• GPS17x-NMEA2000

• GXM51

• Sea235 SSB radio telephone

• Victron Energy digital multi control

• B&G Hercules 200

• 5 B&G 20/20 Displays (Depth, Apparent Wind Angle, Heading, True Wind Speed, Boat Speed)

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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