FIREFLY
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1946
Dimensions
- LOA
- 12 ft
- LWL
- 11.75 ft
- Beam
- 4.67 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.25 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.83 ft
- Displacement
- 260 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.93 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 26.7
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 72
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 68 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood (hot molded)/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1946
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
Originally called the SEA SWALLOW. The first sailboat built by Fairey Marine.
Although intended, and normally raced, as 2 man dinghy, the FIREFLY was selected as the single-handed class for the Olympic games of 1948. (Torbay UK, gold medal won by Paul Elvstrom).
FG construction permitted beginning in 1965.
Designer
- Uffa Fox (1898–1972)
Builders
- Fairey Marine Ltd (1946)
- Rondar Raceboats (1980)
- Whitecap Composites (USA)