DRAGON (INT)
Fractional Sloop • Fin Keel • Built 1928
Dimensions
- LOA
- 29.17 ft
- LWL
- 19 ft
- Beam
- 6.42 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.92 ft
- Displacement
- 3,740 lbs
- Ballast
- 2,200 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.65 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 19.0
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 243
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 58.8%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 286 sq ft
- I
- 26.3 ft
- J
- 6.7 ft
- P
- 33 ft
- E
- 12 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin Keel
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood or FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1928
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes: Following a competition organised by the Royal Yacht Club of Gothenburg, the Dragon was conceived as a "day boat" or small coastal cruising boat. Selected as the 3 man keelboat for the 1948 Olympic Games in London.\nThe designer, Johann Anker was killed in World War II. After the war, his sons waived the royalty for the design to English builders as a token of appreciation to that nations support of Norway in it's darkest hour.\nAlthough it's Olympic class status ended in 1972, it has remained popular around the world in to the 21st century.
Designer
- Johan Anker (1871–1940)
Builders
- Abbott Boats Inc. (1950)
- Abeking & Rasmussen (1907)
- Børresen Bådebyggeri (1938)
- Endeavour Yachts (AUS) (1965–1990)
- Petticrows (UK) (1896)