Maranello has spent decades painting its cars in shades the world has learned to recognise at speed. Now, for the first time, that same colour language is going offshore. At Milan Design Week, Ferrari Hypersail revealed the livery of its 100-foot foiling ocean monohull, and the thinking behind it is as deliberate as anything that has ever rolled out of the Ferrari design studio.
The project began not as a branding exercise but as a collision of worlds. Ferrari’s Tech Team, guided by Matteo Lanzavecchia and Marco Guglielmo Ribigini, its Design Studio under chief design officer Flavio Manzoni, and naval architect Guillaume Verdier have been working together to build a vessel where aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and aesthetics answer to the same brief. The premise is straightforward: performance sets the rules, design transforms them into beauty.
That philosophy shaped every surface. The streamlined silhouette draws on the purity of proportion seen in the Monza SP1/SP2, while the coachroof graphics echo the architecture of the Le Mans-winning 499P Hypercar. Solar panels, integrated flush into the deck and hull sides, were positioned after a detailed study of solar exposure during navigation. They are walkable, grip-finished and fastened with dedicated clip systems, leaving the crew unobstructed.
“Hypersail is a vessel unique in scale and technology, engineered to deliver peak performance within an environment as singular and unpredictable as the ocean,” said Lanzavecchia, who holds the title of Head of Vehicle Engineering at Ferrari and Chief Technology Officer of Hypersail. The boat foils, draws its energy from wind, solar and motion, and the entire control system borrows from Ferrari’s automotive development programme.
The livery itself centres on two colours with history behind them. The hull is finished in Grigio Hypersail, a new variant of grey that lets the carbon fibre structure speak for itself. Against it runs Nuovo Giallo Fly, a yellow with roots deep in the Ferrari story. The shade traces back to a suggestion from Fiamma Breschi, friend of Enzo Ferrari and widow of driver Luigi Musso, who raced in a yellow helmet. Giallo Fly first appeared on the 275 GTB, and in the context of a foiling sailboat, the name carries a second, more literal meaning: a boat that flies.
Applied to the cabin, foils and hull lines, the yellow references the colour separation of the 512 BB, which Ferrari describes as the first integrated livery in its history. The Ferrari logo on the sail uses the elongated “F” form introduced across recent programmes, from the 2023/24 F1 car through to the Daytona SP3.
During Design Week, from April 22 to 26, the project is on display inside the Ferrari Flagship Store in Milan. A lighthouse sculpture created by the Ferrari Design Studio occupies the main terrace of HIGHLINE Milano, overlooking Piazza del Duomo.
Manzoni described the project as an unexpected challenge for his team: a chance to take the design thinking developed across decades of racing car work and apply it somewhere the constraints are set by the sea rather than the circuit.
The boat is still being built. But Ferrari has decided what it will look like when it flies.
Read more about the Ferrari Hypersail livery on the Ferrari website: ferrari.com
