WALLY WHY 100

It may be the smallest model in the wallywhy range, but the new 100 looks suitably arresting and its novel take on a dayboat with the potential for longer cruises makes it a refreshingly original prospect

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Different and uncompromising. Not qualities that you would necessarily associate with relaxing days out on the water, yet these are precisely the words which Wally Yachts has chosen to sum up its latest model: the wallywhy100 (and yes, that is how they like to spell it).

It's a brave call but then so is everything Wally does – you don’t become one of the most admired brands in yachting by simply following the herd.

Then again, being different doesn’t necessarily mean being better, any more than being uncompromising does. But before we put the wallywhy100 through its paces to decide whether it is good-different, bad-different or merely indifferent, a word or two about its place in the Wally firmament.

FORM AND FUNCTION

The 100 is the third and smallest model in the wallywhy range but unlike the original wallywhy200 and 150, both of which were tri-deck cruising yachts designed to maximise internal accommodation, the wallywhy100 is a two-deck boat with a strong emphasis on daytime entertaining rather than overnight cabin space. In that regard it acts as a crossover model between the sleek, paper dart style and high-end performance of the wallypower range and the tall, voluminous, cruising-oriented wallywhy offerings.

What it does share with its larger wallywhy siblings is its distinctive cab-forward design, its semi-displacement hull form and its quirky naming policy (the 100 is only 70ft long).