RIMA98 Boat for Sale

Rima98 Boat | 39' Italia 2021

Rima98 is now available! The incredible Italia Yachts 11.98, a multi-time World Champion, just placed 2nd in the 2024 ORC World Championships in Newport.This particular 11.98 is a one-owner boat that arrived in the U.S. in the spring of 2022 and has benefited from a knowledgeable owner and support crew, including a professional captain and yacht management. When not racing in regattas, Rima98 has been kept in dry-sailed condition in Portsmouth.In addition to its podium finish in the 2024 ORC Worlds, Rima98 has placed in several top-tier regattas, including:

• 2024 170th NYYC Annual Regatta: 1st Overall, Around the Island Race
• 2024 Ida Lewis Distance Race: 2nd in Class
• 2024 Fishers Island Round Island Race: 1st in Class and 3rd Overall
• 2023 ORC East Coast Championship: 1st in Class
• 2023 Block Island Race Week: 2nd in Class
• 2022 NYYC Race Week: 3rd in Class
• 2022 168th NYYC Annual Regatta: 1st in Class, Around the Island Race, and 1st in Class, Annual Regatta
• 2022 Block Island Race: 3rd in Class

In addition to the original delivery Quantum sails, there is a complete suite of North Sails grand prix race inventory that conveys with the purchase. While the interior of Rima98 is currently set up in "race mode," a complete luxury Bellissima cruising interior, kept in climate-controlled storage, is also included with the purchase. In race mode, there are offshore pipe berths that have been added to the aft cabins.The Italia Yachts 11.98 is the perfect ORC racer and has won numerous events on the U.S. East Coast and even more in Europe. It is Bermuda Race-capable, with a sister ship having won her class in that event, including the prestigious Northern Ocean Racing Trophy. When not racing, the 11.98 also serves as a comfortable performance cruiser.

• Bellissima Leather Edition
• ORC International full rating measurement: 527.1 APH / 590.9 GPH
• Axxon carbon fiber rig
• B&G electronics
• Extensive sail inventory, including several North grand prix sails used in only one regatta
• Several deck hardware items replaced or upgraded beyond factory spec
• Dry sailed with Baltoplate race bottom
• Race box trailer available for separate purchase (28' long, fully fitted interior with steel-framed sail racks, lighting, and air conditioning)

Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by David Walters Yachts.

Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.