With Magic Jena, the Magic Sailing Team has achieved an important goal: on the one hand, it has strengthened a fleet of prestigious boats and, on the other, demonstrated the team’s international vision - especially by recruiting the best Slovene sailors - to achieve improvement on both technical and organizational fronts. Magic Jena, an 80-foot Maxi Open, joined the Magic Sailing Team fleet in the Spring of 2003 when Domenico Cilenti and his Magic Sailing Team joined forces with Mitja Kosmina and his group of Slovene yachtsmen.
The first time the paths of the two teams crossed, it was a highly competitive occasion: to be more specific, their first encounter was at sea at Trieste’s 2002 Barcolana event when, during the last leg of the race, Uniflair and MaxiJena, who’d been the front runner up ‘til then, battled it out to the last gust of wind. Uniflair (the Maxi chartered for the occasion) and the Magic Sailing Team got the better of them at the finishing line, leaving Kosmina and his MaxiJena to swallow a bitter defeat. Following handshakes between Kosmina and Cilenti at the prize-giving ceremony, an idea began to take shape - the idea of strengthening means and abilities by uniting the two organizations: the Magic Sailing Team and MaxiJena with Kosmina and part of his team. The result was Magic Jena, a Maxi Open that races under the Magic Sailing Team’s flag. Its objective, to make new records, achieve new successes and undertake a series of new and exciting challenges in the Mediterranean’s most important regattas.

Andrej Justin, the naval architect who designed Magic Jena, has an enviable past in competitive racing both as helmsman and skipper. Based on his personal experiences, he developed the concept of a fast open sailing boat, which first gave rise to the most successful Slovene boat yet, Gaia Legend. His experience then led to the creation of Magic Jena, the Maxi Open the Magic Sailing Team has started to sail in the 2003 racing season.
Magic Jena, originally christened MaxiJena, is the first Maxi Open class boat to be built in Slovenia with advanced technical specifications. An innovative construction method was employed: the hull was built with the aid of a laser-cut female mould, resulting in an extremely flawless and smooth outer surface.
The vacuum infusion and lamination process used to build the hull was carried out with a computerized system to assure top-quality construction.

The design is based on simplicity and balance, for a narrow racing boat with high upwind speeds. Simplicity and balance have been teamed with the highest level of technology, with input from engineers and designers of all nationalities (Slovene, Italian, French, Croat, Dutch and American) and from various fields (from boats to Formula 1).
Magic Jena is the first Maxi in the world to be produced with a female mould using a computer-simulated vacuum injection system. It is 23.99 metres long and 5.05 metres wide, has a carbon mast 36 metres high (made with an innovative optical method), and a rocker keel. “I don’t believe in extreme designs - says Justin -: I have attempted to make a good compromise for fast running with either a strong or slight wind”.
Magic Jena was built in record time: just 8 months, i.e. a third less than similar designs.