Operational history
In August 2021, Skorpios became the largest monohull sailboat to have raced in the Fastnet Race.[2][4]
In a 2019 Megayacht News preview, Diane M. Byrne noted, "Juan Kouyoumdjian, her designer, credits the owner, who will sail with a professional crew, with wanting such a high-performance project. 'I think we are doing something that will set a milestone in the sailing world,' he asserts".[3]
In a 2021 review for Yachting World, Toby Hodges wrote, "The adrenalin of sailing the ClubSwan 125 Skorpios is perhaps heightened by the fear of the unknown: everything about this yacht seems to be on another scale altogether. This is, by some margin, the biggest offshore racing monohull, and certainly the largest ever racing Swan. It boasts possibly the deepest draught non-lifting keel (7.4m) and the largest sailplan combination ever conceived. In short, Skorpios is a seemingly limitless source of superlatives."[2]
In a 2021 review for Boat International, Elaine Bunting wrote, "Skorpios is a yacht that towers over history. When the new supermaxi racer rounded Ireland's famous Fastnet Rock Lighthouse in the Rolex Fastnet Race in August, it was the first boat in the event's 96 years to look down on it, its mast being four metres taller than the historic structure."[4]
In a 2021 Sailing World review, James Boyd wrote, "Given that Skorpios was built in the middle of a pandemic and is so fiendishly complex, it is a miracle it was launched at all."[5]
