Class 40 #81 Zed4 Akilaria RC2 Marc Lombard Design, built by MC-Tec

Offshore racing sailboat with a recent and extensive refit! This sleek performance sailboat offers excellent value -- especially for ‘Global Solo Challenge’ and world race events. Built to Cat 1 standards - upgradeable to Cat 0 with minimum investment. Continuous upgrades since 2020.

Unleash Your Offshore Ambitions: 2009 Akilaria RC2 Class 40*

Sail up to the starting line of your next great ocean adventure with a proven shorthand speed machine. Designed by the legendary Marc Lombard and built by MC-Tec, this Akilaria RC2 represents the sweet spot of Class 40 racing—combining rugged reliability with the exhilarating, podium-ready performance needed to tackle the world’s most demanding offshore events. Whether your sights are set on the Global Solo Challenge, the Atlantic Cup, or a swift transatlantic passage, this vessel delivers true ocean-crossing capability without the intimidating price tag of a new build.

The Akilaria RC2 is renowned for its powerful hull form, engineered specifically to excel at high-speed power-reaching. A high-modulus Axxon carbon mast, and an optimized racing sail wardrobe ensure maximum stability and efficiency in all wind angles. When sailing shorthanded, the dual water ballast tanks provide the right righting moment, while the twin-rudder system guarantees total, responsive control even when driving hard through heavy following seas.

Reliability extends far beyond the sail plan on this particular hull. Auxiliary power is anchored by a recently upgraded 2023 Nanni Kubota 29HP diesel engine, showing under 220 hours of runtime. This practically new power plant ensures efficient, worry-free motoring when negotiating tight harbors or charging systems in a calm. Below deck, the electronics package features dual premium independent, offshore-proven autopilot systems equipped with true wind mode, acting as your highly dependable co-pilot when sailing solo. Power management is handled by a multiple deep-cycle AGM battery bank supported by solar charging, ensuring your critical navigation, AIS, and communication systems run day and night flawlessly.

This vessel has been meticulously maintained and includes redundancy in almost every key mechanical and navigational electronic system. It is currently fully Category 1 offshore compliant and is easily converted to Category 0 compliance with the addition of the forward bulkhead hatches. It stands ready as a turn-key platform for an amateur stepping up to ocean racing or a seasoned pro looking for a cost-effective, competitive campaign.

* Class 40 is a class of monohull sailboats that was established in 2004 to create an accessible category for shorthanded offshore racing.

Opportunities to own a well-sorted Lombard Class 40 with such a fresh auxiliary engine do not last long. Call today to arrange a private inspection.

Updated and refit throughout

Features:

• Standing rigging refit in 2019 
• Carbon Axxon mast
• Most electronic equipment has spares
• 2 auto pilots actuators switchable between Raymarine and B&G 
• Spare Raymarine wind speed and direction unit 
• 2 B&G head mast units. 
• Rudders re-skinned 2025
• Rudder bearings, port and starboard, new 2025 
• Fresh bottom paint July 2025
• H3000computer - remanufactured with warranty 2025
• 2 alternators - Balmar 200 amps & 100 amps updated 2022 
• Sail drive clutches rebuilt 2024
• Sail drive lower unit 2023
• EFOY methanol generator
• 3 100-watt solar panels installed in 2023
• Hydro generation system 2020
• Water-maker
• 2 110-amp ACM batteries 
• Independent AGM battery dedicated to engine starting  
• 1 Inverter 2Kw 2023
• 1 Viking 4-person life raft re-certified July 2025; New in 2021. 
• 2 AIS systems
• Raymarine radar 2023
• 2 auto-pilot systems
• 2 auto-pilot remote controls 
• 2 VHF radios, each with independent antenna.
• Long-distance communications Iridium, Satellite, and Starlink. 
• New engine control panel upgraded in 2023
• 3 furling drums
• Fresh-water pump & sink installed 2021
• Ballast system rebuilt 2021

9 Sails

Main/carbon

Solent/carbon

Stay sail

Storm jib

Gennaker on furler

Code 0 on furler

3 spinnakers with ATN socks - 1 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy

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.

Engine and generator hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.