SARISSA, a 42.6 meter carbon performace sloop has been delievered to her delighted owner.

Sarissa is exactly at the point where the state-of-the-art large sailing yacht world lies. She is a globetrotter with a fully modern hull shape, sail plan, and foils. She was built at Vitters Shipyard and is currently the largest fibre sloop built in the Netherlands. The interior is by Rhoades Young Design Ltd. and the Owner's representative was Jens Cornelsen Yacht Consultant GmbH.

Valkyrie and Bella PITA take first and second in the 2011 Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race

Bella PITA, a Tripp 75’, shattered the 33:29:57 MHOR race record set in 1989 by Starlight Express, finishing the MHOR 2011 in 30:46:52. Valkyrie, a Tripp 78’, finished second with an elapsed time of 31:50:18, but she took first place on corrected time. We would like to extend our congratulations to both owners for an outstanding race.

Tripp Design has expanded its team, increasing breadth and depth of the office team.
Davide Legati is in charge of design project management acting as liaison to the Owner's project managers and to shipyards. Davide’s experience is long and varied from naval architecture to project management and, most notably, as the head of the Wally Europe technical office.
David Egan joins us as an aerodynamicist/mathematician with a singular expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He has been a long time consultant of Tripp Design covering CFD, appendage design and performance analysis, as well as customizing our design and analysis tools. David brings with him a breadth of experience gained while working for America’s Cup teams (Team New Zealand, Prada, Shosholosa).
Myles Cornwell joins us from Derecktor Shipyards where he was the naval architect in charge of outfitting detail design for the 85m motor yacht Cakewalk. Myles is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon in Civil Engineering and has a Masters degree from Southampton University in Maritime Engineering Science.

City of San Francisco Trophy – IRC B: Brad Copper (Pt. Richmond, Calif.), skipper of the Tripp 43 TNT , said he was “totally jazzed” to win his second Rolex watch here after his second-place finish today sewed up the series for him. “We stuck to the same game plan: focus on the basics, do a good job,” he said, noting that his first Rolex Big Boat Series win was in 2008 and he has sailed in four of the events total. Before today’s race he had a three-point lead over Sy Kleinman’s (Saratoga, Calif.) 54’ sloop Swiftsure II, and at day’s end it had narrowed to two points.

Justin Ratcliffe, editor of Superyacht Design, has written a feature article about Tripp Design.
The full article can be found in the Press section of our website.

The 45-meter sailing yacht Saudade, designed by Tripp Design and built at Wally Europe, was this year’s winner of “Best Sailing Yacht 45-meter + Size Range” at the Boat International Superyacht Awards held in London on May 23, 2009.

Out of the five contenders, the judges noted, "This was a closely contested class that pitted four similar yachts against a more radical one. All were highly capable performance cruisers thought equally capable of taking the crown but the judges chose to recognize a yacht that combined radical looks with high-tech, lightweight construction and excellent sailing performance, while providing her highly experienced owner with the style, comfort and blue-ocean cruising capabilities that he sought. This deserving winner was Saudade, an impressive world-ranging yacht that is equally at home on the racetrack."