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The Amel 50 is a Berret-Racoupeau-designed masthead sloop built by Amel from 2017 to the present, featuring a fin keel with a bulb and dual rudders. It measures 16.5 meters LOA with a 4.8-meter beam and 2.1-meter draft, displacing 18,750 kg. Amel's first sloop since 1997, it offers an optional cutter rig with a 24 m2 staysail. Aboard *Sailing Mirage*, the Amel 50 has completed a 2,200-nautical-mile Atlantic crossing from Mindelo, Cape Verde, to Bridgetown, Barbados, maintaining 7 to 9 knots in 19-to-20-knot winds and 2.5-meter seas.0:18 The crew configured a wing-on-wing setup with a preventer on the mainsail for downwind sailing and repaired a boom vang failure en route.1:23 The Amel 50 has also sailed a rough 150-mile passage across the Mona Passage from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic in 4-meter waves and 35-knot gusts, requiring a double-reefed main and rolled-in genoa.0:57 Crews use the inner staysail to boost speed, adding 0.7 knots when running dead downwind.3:13 The boat has navigated shallow banks and strong currents in the Turks & Caicos, and transited the Gulf Stream from the Bahamas to Florida, using the current's 3-knot northward set.8:54
