FIREBALL
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1962
Dimensions
- LOA
- 16.17 ft
- LWL
- 13.25 ft
- Beam
- 4.42 ft
- Max Draft
- 4 ft
- Displacement
- 170 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.19 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 64.1
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 33
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 123 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood or FG, single chine
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1962
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 15000
Notes:
Popular, scow-like, 2 man high performance one-design dinghy w/trapeze.
Originally designed with the amateur builder in mind of plywood construction.
Designer
- Peter Milne (1934–2008)
Builders
- Chippendale Boats (UK)
- Nautivela (ITA) (1961)
- Rondar Raceboats (1980)
- Weathermark Sailboats (2010)
- Winder Boats (UK)