No. Built:5
Builder: COLVIC CRAFT, UK
Designer: BRUCE FARR
LOA: 64’ 6” / 19.8 M
LWL: 55’ 5” / 16.9 M
Beam: 17’ / 5.2 M
Draft: 10’ 2” / 3.2 M
Displacement: 60,600 LBS. / 27,500 KGS.
SA/D: 21.4
D/L: 166
Hull Speed: 9.9 KTS.

FALKEN is a Farr-designed 65-foot 'round the world racing yacht', built by Colvic Craft in the UK in 1999 for a fledgling amateur round-the-world race, at the time a competitor to the Clipper Race, and long since defunct. The original plan was to commission and build ten Farr 65s, then race them around the world with amateur crew. Four were actually built, and raced, and a 5th with a modified cruising interior was built in 2003 on the same hull and deck plan and used as Alex Thompson's very first HUGO BOSS.

After the first and only edition of the RTW race, the boats were sold off to various sail training companies. Alex originally had all of them, using them for a business called Formula 1 Sailing; later the original four went to OnDeck, a sail training business based in the UK and Antigua (and in fact where Mia Karlsson & Emma Garschagen did their Yachtmaster licenses). OnDeck still has one they train and race on in Antigua; the original HUGO BOSS is now CELESTE and owned and based in Sweden, doing adventure charter; UKSA had two of them, one of which we bought; and the last one, last I saw, is on the hard in Antigua in various pieces and in a sad state of disrepair.