Innovations in technology and construction have come together to produce a boat that offers blistering speed and sailing ease. The goal was to produce an extremely fast and simple keelboat sailed by a crew of no more than 6 or 7 intermediate level sailors. The Farr 11s sports a skiff style rig with no backstays to hassle with on tacks and gybes, an easy to tack non-overlapping jib and a powerful asymmetrical spinnaker on a retracting sprit.

The Farr 11s incorporates canting keel technology with twin asymmetric canards and twin retractable rudders on a hull designed with high form stability. This combination has been explored in Farr Yacht Design's research work for the Open 60, Volvo 70, Cookson 50 and the 30meter canting-keel Maxi Leopard 3, which presented this project with fertile ground to draw from our experience. The hull shape combines the demands for minimizing light air (low speed) drag with high-speed stability and excellent handling qualities. Twin rudders will help control in extreme conditions while the raked bow offers better wave jumping/piercing control.