Racing Code 8 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Hull type

Monohull · bulb

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

26.25' · 8 m

Displ.

2,183 lbs · 990 kg

First year

2008

Born from the hightech workshop of Pauger Carbon in Hungary and the drafting board of Andrej Justin—designer of the prestigious RC44 class—the Code 8 is a purist’s exercise in carbon fiber performance. This 8meter (26.25foot) racerdaysailer was engineered to dominate lake and coastal solo circuits, most notably proving its mettle on Lake Balaton. Constructed using vacuuminfused carbon/epoxy sandwich materials, the vessel is a study in extreme weighttopower ratios, weighing in at approximately 990 kg with nearly 60% of that mass concentrated in the keel bulb. The result is a boat that behaves more like a highperformance dinghy with the stability of a leadshod keelboat, capable of planing both upwind and downwind in a wide range of conditions.