JOLLYBOAT
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1950
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 17.5 ft
- Beam
- 5 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.75 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.67 ft
- Displacement
- 300 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.99 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 57.1
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 25
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 160 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood or FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1950
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 500
Notes: The first boats were 'hot molded' with wood veneers, using a method developed by Fairey Marine's parent company for aircraft construction during WWII. (Fairey Marine built around 370 boats.)\nIn addition to it's initial popularity in the UK, a number were imported to the US by George O'Day, an agent for Fairey Marine at the time. Boats were also built and raced in Australia and New Zealand. \nTrapezes were legalized in 1959. A few were built of fiberglass by (among others) Columbia Yachts (USA) in the mid 1960's but, reportedly, the technology had not progressed far enough at this time to match the rigidity and light weight of the wood boats. JOLLYBOAT class racing had mostly vanished by 1970.
Designer
- Uffa Fox (1898–1972)
Builders
- Columbia Yachts (1961)
- Fairey Marine Ltd (1946)
- O'Day Corp. (1958–1989)