Sail Yacht Walkabout
Sailing Adventure
Experience the Adventure aboard the Walkabout
Set sail towards the most fascinating places in the Mediterranean aboard the Walkabout, a modern sailing boat designed for ocean navigation, where performance, comfort and safety blend together to give you a unique experience.
Fast cruising
Walkabout 43
Boat designed for ocean navigation
The Walkabout is a modern sailboat, designed to ensure safety and comfort even in the most challenging sailing conditions, such as ocean crossings. It is the first model in the Walkabout Yachts range, developed by naval architect David Reard and built entirely at the shipyard founded by Lorenzo Leonello and Annalisa de Cesare, leveraging the expertise acquired during their round-the-world sailing trips.
The hull construction uses advanced composite materials, combining epoxy resins with glass or carbon fiber to achieve high structural strength combined with remarkable lightness. The fixed bulb keel accounts for almost 50% of the vessel's weight, allowing for a low center of gravity for optimal performance and ensuring excellent stability even in the most challenging sea and wind conditions.
The sail plan is balanced and designed to offer excellent handling in both light and strong winds, while the twin rudders ensure precise control and optimal maneuverability at all points of sail. The steering system is equipped with an NKE autopilot, recognized for its reliability and responsiveness in the most complex situations.
The interiors are designed to maximize livability and functionality. The layout includes three double cabins and two bathrooms, as well as a spacious and comfortable dinette. The galley is designed for easy meal preparation, with a tilting stove, oven, and chest refrigerator, ensuring practicality even while underway.
Fast Sailing
Fast and planing sailboat
Technical and Construction Features.
Design and Naval Architecture: David Reard's design stands out for its perfect balance between performance and comfort, offering a unique and satisfying sailing experience. Optimized for ocean sailing, the boat is built with a composite hull that guarantees lightness, strength, and resistance to marine stress. The hull features a very wide maximum beam. With 44% keel weight, it has a very good righting moment, providing great stability. The Walkabout is characterized by its surprising speed, capable of rapidly planing in downwind conditions, making transfers not only faster but also incredibly fun and engaging. Hull and Deck: The hull features a modern, very wide design that, in addition to ensuring stability, offers great habitability both inside and in the cockpit. The planing hull is inspired by modern open ocean yachts and is equipped with two rudders, designed to reduce hydrodynamic drag and improve efficiency under sail. The spacious and well-structured deck allows for safe navigation even in rough seas. Mast and Sails: The mast is made of aluminum to ensure rigidity and safety at all speeds. To adapt to wind conditions, the sail plan includes a three-reefed mainsail and various headsails: a gennaker with furler, a jib, a furling genoa, and a furling staysail. Safety and Stability: The Walkabout sailboat features a fixed bulb keel, which accounts for almost half of the vessel's weight, ensuring high stability even in the most challenging conditions. The twin rudders ensure exceptional maneuverability in any wind, making navigation smooth and precise. The steering system is further enhanced by the NKE autopilot, characterized by high precision and responsiveness, allowing for optimal course control even in the most challenging conditions.
Conviviality
Space for on-board living
The Walkabout offers a well-designed and spacious cockpit thanks to its wide beam, which tapers only slightly toward the stern.
This layout provides generous space for both those engaged in maneuvers and those who wish to relax comfortably in the shade, protected by the sprayhood and bimini.
The spacious cockpit creates a convivial and welcoming atmosphere, perfect for enjoying the sea in total comfort.
The stern of the Walkabout is open and equipped with a spacious integrated swim platform covered in non-slip teak, offering an additional area dedicated to bathing activities with easy and direct access to the water thanks to an integrated telescopic ladder.
During navigation, the stern of the Walkabout can be completely closed by a hinged hatch, ensuring maximum safety on board and preventing the risk of falling overboard. This system, made of carbon fiber composite, is designed to integrate seamlessly into the design of the boat, without compromising aesthetics or functionality.
When the boat is docked in a marina, the hatch transforms into a practical gangway, allowing for comfortable and safe access from the dock to the deck.
This solution optimizes the use of the stern space and makes every stop at anchor particularly pleasant and relaxing.
Relax
Interior layout
The Walkabout's interior layout is designed to offer livability and functionality during navigation and onboard stays, without sacrificing elegance and practicality.
The boat features three spacious and welcoming double cabins, each designed for privacy and comfort. There are two bathrooms.
The dinette is particularly large and comfortable, with a generously sized galley, comparable to a home kitchen, complete with everything needed to prepare delicious meals and share convivial moments.
The saloon features two comfortable sofas, which can be converted into two double berths, offering additional sleeping capacity. In the center, a solid and functional table allows for dining below deck if necessary.
The Walkabout's galley is designed for practicality and ease of use, even during extended navigation. Its generous dimensions allow for the preparation of even elaborate meals for several people, with spaces organized to facilitate every culinary task.
It features a spacious top-loading refrigerator, ensuring excellent food preservation and easy access even in rough seas. The tilting two-burner hob ensures stability during cooking, while the built-in oven allows for the preparation of hot dishes and more complex cooking methods.
The ergonomic design of the L-shaped galley allows for easy movement even while underway, thanks to strategically placed handrails.
Bow Cabin
The bow cabin of Walkabout
The Walkabout's forward cabin is well-organized and spacious thanks to the vessel's generous width. Access is via an antechamber that allows even the tallest passengers to stand upright.
Brightness and ventilation are ensured by a large hatch located directly above the bed and an additional hatch, which allow for excellent air circulation and natural light.
The double bed, equipped with slats, ensures a comfortable sleep, enhanced by memory foam pillows and a choice of blankets or duvets, depending on the season.
The cabin is equipped with a vertical wardrobe and practical side cabinets for convenient storage of clothing and personal items. There are dedicated reading lights and USB ports for charging devices.
In addition, the forward berth has its own private bathroom, offering greater privacy and comfort.
Stern Cabin
Walkabout stern cabins
At the stern of the Walkabout are two spacious double cabins, both featuring a standing antechamber.
Natural lighting and ventilation are provided by two side portholes. The double bed is a rare width for sailboats of this size, with ample space above the mattress for comfort and freedom of movement.
Each cabin is equipped with a vertical wardrobe located in the antechamber and practical side cabinets next to the bed, ideal for storing clothes and personal items.
There are also dedicated reading lights and USB ports for charging electronic devices, ensuring practicality and convenience during your stay on board.
Memory foam pillows and a choice of blankets or duvets, depending on the season, are provided for your stay.
Dinette
The versatile and spacious dinette
The Walkabout's dinette features two large sofas and a central table with fold-down doors, allowing for additional space when the table is not in use.
Underneath the sofa seats are large lockers, ideal for storing equipment and personal items neatly and safely. Above the sofas, side lockers provide additional storage space, keeping the interior organized and clutter-free.
Natural light and ventilation are provided by four portholes along the deckhouse and two overhead hatches, which not only illuminate the space but also promote excellent air circulation.
The floor is finished with teak flooring, which lends a touch of elegance and a marine style, as well as ensuring durability and a non-slip surface.
Dinette by night
The bunks in the dinette
The Walkabout's dinette is versatile and can be used in two ways, depending on the number of people on board.
In its standard configuration, it offers a convivial space with a sofa and table for relaxing and socializing.
If there are 7 or 8 people on board, the sofas in the dinette can be quickly transformed into two very large berths by folding down the backrest, providing additional sleeping accommodations in a simple and practical way.
This flexibility allows the dinette space to be adapted to the needs of the crew, ensuring maximum comfort and optimal use of the interior space.
The dinette berths are particularly popular with those who prefer sleeping in a single bed rather than sharing a double bed. They offer excellent ventilation and ample space, ensuring a comfortable and pleasant sleep, even for those seeking greater independence during the night.
Thechnical datasheet
| Main Dimensions | |
| LOA (Length overall) | 13.68m |
| LH (Hull Lenght) | 12,99m |
| LWL (length at the waterline) | 12.70m |
| Beam | 4,50m |
| Draft | 2,15m |
| Keel Weight | 3200kg |
| Displacement | 7200kg |
| Displacement max load | 9500kg |
| Max Load | 2300kg |
| Sail Plan | |
| Mast | Aluminum |
| Boom | Aluminum |
| Stays | Inox wire |
| Sail Area | 116mq |
| Main Sail | 59mq |
| Genoa | 57mq |
| Staysail | 24mq |
| Gennaker | 180mq |
| I | 18,88m |
| J | 5,43m |
| P | 17,4m |
| E | 5,82m |
| Tanks | |
| Water | 600lt |
| Diesel | 430lt |
| Engine | |
| Yanmar | 54CV |
| Construction | |
| CE Category | A (Ocean) |
| Designer | David Reard |
| Technical data | |
| Stix | 47 |
| Keel weight/Displacement | 44,4 % |
| Sail Area/Displacement | 31,1 |
| Displacement/LWL | 3,52 |
| Equipment | |
| Electronics | NKE Electronics with Autopilot, Radar, Vhf, AIS class B |
| Water System | Watermaker, Boiler, Cokpit Shower with Hot Water |
| Confort | Sprayhood, Bimini, Cockpit table, Carbonfiber Passerella |
| Electrical System | Solar Panel 2 x 215W, 220V Elettrical System, 12V Elettrical System usb plug in every cabin |
| Tender | Tender 3,10mt , Yamaha 6cv Outboard |