What is the Ferrari Hypersail? All You Need to Know About The Prancing Horse’s Ocean Racer

Lately, Ferrari has been in the news for all the wrong reasons — spending the last year being asked the same question: what happens to a brand built on combustion when combustion ends? The Luce, Ferrari’s first fully electric car, has stirred that debate loudly, drawing criticism from purists. While that continues, the brand has revealed the first construction images of something that answers the identity question more clearly than any statement could.

The Hypersail is a 100-foot offshore foiling yacht that generates its own energy, flies above the water on three foils, and uses no combustion whatsoever. Curious? Here is what you need to know about the superyacht.

What It Is and How It Works

The Hypersail is a one-off prototype. There is no production run, no order book, and no price. In terms of its features, the hull measures 20 metres in length with a 20-metre beam, while carrying a 40-metre mast. For the construction, carbon fibre and titanium composite with foam cores, honeycomb sections, and laminates — just millimetres thick — are used.

Fun fact: approximately 90 per cent of the carbon fibre is sourced directly from Scuderia Ferrari's automotive production lines. Apart from this, the company has filed at least nine patents for the vessel's systems and structure.

The naval architect of the Hypersail is Guillaume Verdier, whose previous work spans America's Cup campaigns and Vendée Globe boats — two of the most technically demanding categories in competitive sailing. Giovanni Soldini, the team principal, is one of Italy's most accomplished offshore racers.

The Hypersail achieves flight on three contact points: a foil linked to a canting keel, a foil on the rudder, and one of two lateral foils. This makes it the first monohull of its size to use a foil on the canting keel — a configuration previously untested at this scale. When foiling at speed, the entire hull lifts clear of the ocean surface. The flight control system adjusts the foils hundreds of times per second, and its logic is derived directly from Ferrari's automotive technology division.

The yacht carries no diesel engine. All power required to run the control systems, sails, computers, and instruments is generated onboard through approximately 100 square metres of integrated solar panels producing around 20 kW, supplemented by wind and kinetic energy recovery. Ferrari has positioned the Hypersail as the first 100-foot yacht in the world designed to be entirely energy self-sufficient. A crew of up to 12 sailors will operate it, backed by a larger onshore support team.

Ferrari Hypersail is scheduled to launch from the Pisa facility no earlier than September 2026, with sea trials to follow ahead of an eventual run at major offshore ocean records.