Wingsail Explorer Yachts
The Wind Voyage Range
The Wind Voyage range is a family of wingsail-powered explorer yachts designed by VPLP Design — the studio behind some of the world's most advanced sailing craft. Each yacht shares the same DNA: Oceanwings® primary propulsion, diesel-electric hybrid architecture, ice-capable hull, and the autonomy to reach the planet's most remote anchorages.
The range begins with the 89-metre — agile, intimate, and built for a single owner's family — and culminates in the 106-metre flagship, a charter-ready expedition platform with more accommodation and four Oceanwings®. A dedicated yacht support vessel completes the range, carrying the helicopters, tenders, submersibles, and expedition gear that make true global cruising possible.
Together, they are designed to take you anywhere on earth — from the trade winds to the ice edge — at a fraction of the fuel and emissions of any conventional yacht of equivalent capability.
The Wind Voyage Range
Each yacht in the Wind Voyage range is engineered for unrestricted, low-emission ocean travel — built for real exploration, in the most remote waters on the planet.
EXPLORER
89m wingsail explorer
An intimate, family-scaled wingsail explorer designed for luxurious ocean living. Forward observation lounge, double-height atrium, and a dedicated owner's office at the stern — the entire interior shaped around a single family's life at sea, with three Oceanwings® delivering primary propulsion across global routes.
Discover the 89 →
Flagship
106m wingsail explorer
The flagship of the Wind Voyage range. Four Oceanwings®, panoramic forward observation deck, certified helideck, and a beach club opening at water level. Built to charter-grade Passenger Yacht Code standards with accommodation for up to 36 guests across long-range expedition itineraries — from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pacific.
Discover the 106 →
YACHT SUPPORT
Dedicated expedition support vessel
A purpose-built shadow vessel that extends the reach of the mothership. Carries dual helicopters, expedition tenders, submersible and dive operations, additional guest, and the workshop capacity for true off-grid voyaging. Designed to keep the main yacht clear of toys and gear, allowing each vessel to do what it does best.
DISCOVER YACHT SUPPORT →Technology
Every Wind Voyage yacht is built around a single idea: that wind, sun, and intelligent engineering can do most of the work that fossil fuel does on a conventional yacht. Below, the ten systems that make it possible.
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Two-element rigid wingsails developed by VPLP and ocean-proven aboard the cargo vessel Canopée. Each wing is fully automated, can rotate through 360 degrees, adjust camber on demand, and reef itself in excessive wind. The result is primary propulsion that delivers thrust on most points of sail and shuts down safely when the weather turns.
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When the yacht is moving under sail, the propellers turn freely and the propulsion motors operate in reverse — generating electricity from the water flowing past the hull. Above eight knots, hydrogeneration alone covers the full hotel load, allowing days at sea with the generators silent.
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Photovoltaic cells are integrated directly into the deck surfaces and into both sides of each Oceanwing® — turning surfaces that already exist into productive collectors. In tropical anchorages, solar contribution can offset some of the yacht's daytime hotel load.
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A diesel-electric power plant feeds a common DC bus shared by propulsion, hotel loads, and the energy storage system. Generators run only at their most efficient load points, and at low speeds or in port the yacht can operate on batteries alone — silent, vibration-free, and emissions-free at the dock.
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A central energy-management system continuously balances production from wings, solar, hydrogeneration, generators, and batteries against propulsion demand and hotel loads. The result: the cleanest available source is always doing the work, and the diesel runs only when nothing else can keep up.
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Advanced insulation in the superstructure and hull keeps interior temperatures stable in tropical heat and polar cold, dramatically reducing the load on HVAC. The air-conditioning system runs from the battery bank, allowing the generators to remain off through the night without compromising guest comfort.
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Waste heat from the generators, the propulsion motors, and the air-conditioning condensers is captured and redirected — preheating the boiler water, supporting under-floor heating in cold-water cruising, and warming the spa pool. A stream that would otherwise be lost to the sea becomes a second source of useful energy.
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High-efficiency watermakers, an advanced purification system, and rainwater capture together eliminate any practical limit on fresh water aboard. Boiler water is preheated by the heat recovery system from the generators and by surplus solar energy.
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The yacht's energy storage uses graphene batteries — significantly higher energy density, faster charge and discharge rates, and a longer service life than conventional lithium batteries. The result is a bank that supports the full hotel load through the night and recharges in a single afternoon of solar and hydrogeneration.
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Naval architecture by VPLP, refined through tank testing at MARIN in the Netherlands and extensive CFD simulation. The hull form is shaped for low resistance under sail and under power, with appendages and propulsion units placed to minimise drag whenever the wings are doing the work.
Where Wind Voyage Takes You
Twelve of the most remarkable destinations on the planet — each chosen because the Wind Voyage range is uniquely capable of reaching them quietly, cleanly, and with the autonomy to stay as long as the journey demands.
The Far South
The white continent rewards visitors of every age and ability — kayaking among bergs in the long evening light, hiking glacial valleys, ski descents from summit to sea, and the historic harbours of the heroic age. There is no destination on earth more singular than the Antarctic Peninsula.
Explore Antarctica →
Sub-Antarctic Atlantic
Often called the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — vast colonies of king penguins, beaches alive with elephant and fur seals, and the resting place of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Wild, biologically extraordinary, and reached only by serious ocean-going vessels.
Explore South Georgia →
High Arctic
A compact archipelago that compresses the entire Arctic into one cruising ground — glacier-cut peaks, weathered tundra, and the slow advance of sea ice. Every bay holds a chance encounter: walrus, reindeer, arctic fox, nesting seabirds, and the polar bear, the phantom of the ice.
Explore Svalbard →
Arctic Canada
One of the most legendary waterways in the world. Fewer than three hundred vessels have completed the full transit — a navigation that demands the autonomy, ice-capability, and weather window only a true expedition platform can provide.
Explore the Passage →
North Atlantic
A landscape carved by Ice Age glaciers, mostly inside the Arctic Circle. Sled dogs, kayaks, vast icebergs and small painted settlements — and in spring, some of the finest heli-ski terrain on earth, all reached from a quiet anchorage just offshore.
Explore Greenland →
Northern Europe
A coastline of narrow fjords, secluded inlets, and the sharp granite peaks of Lofoten. From the southern Norwegian coast all the way to the Arctic Circle, an itinerary unfolds at the slow pace the geography demands — and which a wingsail vessel handles in near-silence.
Explore Norway →
North Pacific
Pristine fjords, towering tidewater glaciers, temperate rainforest, and a coastline best explored by tender and kayak. A rare chance to slip into the small inlets and side bays where the wildlife — humpbacks, brown bears, sea otters — lives largely undisturbed.
Explore Alaska →
Southern Cone
An eight-hundred-mile passage through one of the least-visited cruising grounds on the planet — fractured fjords, granite spires, glaciers calving directly into the sea, and a wind-carved temperate rainforest stretching almost unbroken to the southern tip of the Americas.
Explore Patagonia →
Equatorial Pacific
The archipelago that shaped Darwin's understanding of evolution. An isolated Pacific kingdom of marine iguanas, giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, and species so unaccustomed to human presence that close encounters happen everywhere ashore and underwater.
Explore the Galápagos →
Western Pacific
The most culturally diverse nation on earth — five thousand clans speaking more than 850 languages — paired with reefs and trenches that hold a striking share of the planet's marine life. A destination as much about ceremony and encounter as about the sea itself.
Explore PNG →
Central Pacific
More than a hundred islands and atolls scattered across the South Pacific like a string of pearls. Volcanic peaks, glassy lagoons, and the steady trade winds — exactly the conditions wingsail propulsion was made for, with weeks of sailing between bunkers entirely possible.
Explore French Polynesia →
Melanesia
Far off the standard cruising circuit. Active volcanoes, world-class diving, and welcoming island communities — the kind of destination that rewards a vessel willing to stay for weeks rather than pass through, exactly the autonomy the Wind Voyage range provides.
Explore Vanuatu & the Solomons →Exterior & Naval Architecture
Wind Voyage is available for private ownership. Contact our team to receive the full project presentation and specification package.