While her hull was laid in December 2021 she was not completed until 2022 and was shipped to the US and delivered in June of that year.

Launched in 2019, the IY11.98 immediately took the world by storm by winning the Barca dell'anno (Boat of the Year) in Italy. In the same year it won the ORC World Championship, and this was followed again by taking 2nd place in 2021 and 1st place in 2022 and 2023. In 2020 the IY11.98 was nominated for the European Yacht of the Year.

The Italia Yachts brand is known for its stunningly good looks and amazing performances, all while providing a comfortable and safe platform. The brain child of designer Matteo Polli and the IY Design Team, the IY11.98 was designed to be a boat of two souls. Rather than being a traditional racer/cruiser, the IY11.98 can be set up for either configuration, or a combination of both. Allowing owners to cruise and compete to their liking.

'Rose Del Mare' was setup with the goal of winning the Chicago-Mackinac Race. Which she did by taking 1st place in Section 6 in 2022 and winning the Theodore M Dunlap trophy less than 60 days after delivery from Italy. In 2023 they took 2nd place in the Tripp Cup and 1st place in the Queens Cup.

The sellers also like to cruise, so this particular IY11.98 was equipped with several features to allow for a comfortable weekend on the water. Air conditioning with reverse cycle heat, diesel heater, inverter, refrigeration, and more.

You will find that 'Rosa Del Mare' is the top outfitted IY11.98 built to date and one that can be competitively raced as well as cruised. During the past winter she was stored in a heated building. With her light use on the Great Lakes and being just over a year after delivery this is a special opportunity to get into a world champion IY11.98 at a significant discount and the wait time for a new build.

With the 2024 ORC World Championship in Newport, RI this is a great chance to jump into a turn-key program with a proven winning track record.

Overview

Accommodations

The IY11.98 is nicely outfitted with a large interior for it's size and performance. There are three cabins, each with a double berth. Forward is the V-berth with two hanging lockers and cabinets, plus storage space under the bed.

Aft are duplicate port/starboard cabins, each with a hanging locker and cabinets.

Mid-ships to starboard is a head with pull out shower and to port is another shower compartment that can be used as a wet locker. Both compartments have storage lockers and there is a closet in the shower.

Just forward of the head on starboard is the nav station with storage beneath the table and the seat. Across to port is the well appointed galley with refrigerated ice box, stove with oven, sink and lots of storage.

The saloon is outfitted with port/starboard settees with storage behind and below. The saloon table is finished in luxury light oak with dropping leaves.

Headroom is excellent, with 6'5" around the galley and nav station and sloping down to 6' in the forward cabin.

Electrical

• A durable and well thoughout electrical system, designed from the automation industry, is outfitted on all Italia Yachts. This system ensures long life, easy to service, and low probability of failure.Digital switching electrical panel with Simarine display monitoring batteries and tankage
• Mastervolt battery charger
• Xantrex inverter
• 390 Ah in the house bank with three Mastervolt AGM batteries
• Separate AGM battery for the engine
• Shore power connection and cable

Standard Equipment

• Hull and deck built in sandwich using vinylester resins with unidirectional and biaxial fibers and differentiated density PVC cores, vacuum resin infusion construction
• Structural hull frame laminated with unidirectional carbon reinforcement
• High efficiency 'T' bulb with fin and torpedo in lead with 3% antimony
• Biconical rudder stock made of anticorodal EN 6082 alloy with reinforcement blades. The blade is in sandwich of GRP with high efficiency profiles
• Self-aligning Jefa rudder bearings on rollers.
• "German Sheet" mainsheet system with dedicated winches
• Halyards and sheets in Dyneema DSK 78
• Cockpit shower
• Transverse jib tracks for maximum control of the jib
• Ball bearing blocks and traveler cars
• Self-draining anchor locker
• Recesses for cockpit instrumentation (companionway and mid-cockpit)
• LED navigation and interior lighting
• N° 2 oversize flush hatch opening 180°
• N° 2 openable portlights in cockpit and on coachroof
• Black water tank system
• Shore power system including battery charger 25A, shore power cable, and N.1 outlet at chart table  

Shipyard Upgrades

• Bellissima Carbon edition - Cabinets in saloon and cabins with carbon weave leather facing, hanging lockers, luxury flooring, luxury front cabin doors, saloon table in light oak, black sink faucets
• Nav station
• Volvo D2-40 engine with saildrive
• 2-blade folding race propeller
• Twin wheel steering
• Removable contentive benches with integrated storage lockers in cockpit
• Additional portlights on coach roof (over galley and nav station)
• Additional portlights in cockpit for aft cabins
• Removable teak cockpit table with stainless steel legs
• Flush closing seacocks by Forespar
• Carbon racing bowsprit in clear finish
• Light grey non-skid
• Stanchions and pulpits in black
• Mainsheet "windward" traveler car
• Harken Performa racing winch package
• Cunningham
• Halyard diverters with rollers for clutches
• Symmetrical spinnaker pole and equipment
• Asymmetrical spinnaker equipment
• Ubi Maior Jiber below deck jib furler
• Ronstan Magic Wheel backstay with 80:1 purchase
• Axxon carbon fiber mast and boom
• Hydraulic mast jack
• Adjustable mast base
• Rod rigging
• Antal HS22.09 feeder for race main
• Eberspacher 5D diesel heating system with digital control
• Mabru 110V air conditioning with reverse cycle heat (can be run through inverter)
• Inverter
• Water heater 16 liter with engine loop
• Gimbaled 3 burner stove with oven
• Additional 130Ah AGM house battery (390Ah total capacity)
• Extra USB and 110V outlets in all cabins and galley
• Cockpit cushions in Sunbrella
• Folding deck cleats
• PSB sheet bags and lifeline covers

Sails

Complete cruising and racing package by Quantum Sails

Cruising

• Tri-Radial Black mainsail with cars
• Tri-Radial Black furling AP jib with vertical batten and UV strip

Racing

• Fusion M7 carbon main with bolt rope
• Fusion M7 carbon jibs, J1 J2 J3
• Asymmetrical spinnakers, A1 A2 A3
• Symmetrical spinnaker, S2
• Spinnaker Staysail with furler
• Code 0 with furler

Electronics

• Professional B&G race electronics package installed by Mid-Atlantic Marine Electronics in AnnapolisH5000 Hercules
• H5000 graphic displays x2
• Precision 9 compass
• Flush mounted speed (SEN-SPD) and depth/temp (DT800) transducers
• VMHU 1050 masthead wind sensor with 1050mm tall carbon pole
• Motion sensor
• ZG100 GPS sensor
• Vulcan 7 MFD at nav station
• Nemesis 9 x2 mast displays in carbon pod
• Barometer sensor
• H5000 autopilot with controller
• RF25 rudder feedback
• T2 ram
• Wireless autopilot remote
• V60B AIS TX/RX with H60 wireless handset and LMR-300 low loss cable
• Fusion BB300 AM/FM/Sirius/Bluetooth/NMEA2000 stereo
• Fusion FR6022 speakers
• Getac F110 V5 tablet PC with Windows and Expedition with Havis dock
• 4GXtream wifi router and cellular booster with outside antennas on custom stern pulput mount
• FleetOne satellite phone with dome on custom stern pulpit mount

Other Upgrades

• Boom tent
• Starlink, RV version

Disclaimer

The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.