Arcona Yachts
Swedish performance-cruising sailboats, combining cruising layouts with race-informed sailing systems.
Arcona Yachts AB is a Swedish sailing-yacht builder based in Henån, Sweden. The brand presents a current fleet of performance cruisers spanning the Arcona 345, 385, 415, 435 Mk II, 465 Mk II and 50.
It identifies the 50 as the new flagship, designed by Niels Jeppesen and Ariadna Pons, and describes a brief that combined two-person handling, cruising comfort and sailing performance. The model has twin rudders, twin wheels, a dinghy garage and an arrangement for short-handed sail handling; its RCD category is listed as A—Ocean. These are characteristics of the Arcona 50 page, not automatic specifications for every yacht made by the yard.
Arcona's performance cruisers bring a racing-informed sailing brief together with accommodation for travel. The Arcona 50 illustrates the balance: its published design work addresses two-person handling as well as interior comfort and sailing response.
For an owner, the key comparison is not speed in isolation. Sail-handling arrangements, cockpit ergonomics, storage and the length of planned passages need to work for the crew that will actually sail the yacht. The different sizes in the range will resolve that balance in different ways. The flagship's two-person handling brief is worth testing with the owner's own crew, not assumed from its published design intention.
Find Arcona Yachts models in the LYRA catalogue: Arcona 50.