In an April 25, 2018 press release, Wally Yachts announced the launch of the new Nahita 93 high-performance luxury sailing yacht at the Marina di Ravenna Performance Boats facility in Italy. The Nahita 93 takes over where the 2009 Nahita 80 left off for her experienced European yachtsman owner. Nahita is unique among Wallys with regard to her advanced deck design, collecting additional kudos for her beautiful features that perfectly dovetail posh cruising with impressive maxi yacht racing performance
Remarkable for the stylish camouflage of her central social cockpit, Nahita sports innovative window and coaming designs to display a flush, ultra clean deck with clear sight lines. The result is a modern sea-loving sculpture that is also a very talented yacht that collects compliments wherever she goes.
The interior style, a collaboration of Wally/Luca Bassani and Milan's Sans Tabù interior design, embraces comfort, injecting abundant living space with luxurious lines and posh furnishings that are a signature of Wally Yachts. Increased privacy in the forward master cabin is facilitated by a new layout that also improves performance by minimizing pitching, placing the salon fore of the mast, with guest cabins, crew cabins, and galley amidships.
Nahita is truly technology personified, expressing a high degree of rigidity through high modulus unidirectional carbon fiber construction from a CNC female carbon fiber mold like that of America's Cup yachts. Equipped with a lifting keel, Nahita accommodates a draft between 4.5 to 6.2 meters, providing an increased righting moment in a broad reach as well as lift in upwind conditions. Nahita's ratio of 503 square meters of sail area to her 35.5-ton featherweight displacement makes her a fast and powerful competitor, comparable to the Wally Cento yachts.
Sleeping 6 guests in 3 en-suite cabins with accommodations for 2 crew, Nahita is a 28.3-meter yacht with a 6.65-meter beam. Naval Architecture from Judel/Vrolijk gives the yacht its chic lines, with large, broad stern and high interior volume. Nahita's mast and boom are from Southern Spars, and her sail wardrobe is exclusively North Sails. Powered by a 255 hp Steyr diesel engine, her top speed under power is 12 knots.
Post-launch, Nahita will run through the paces of sea trials in anticipation of her debut at the highly competitive Wally Class races during the 2018 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Sept. 2-8 in Porto Cervo, along Italy's Costa Smeralda in northern Sardinia.
