SWALLOW
Fractional Sloop • Fin Keel • Built 1948
Dimensions
- LOA
- 25.42 ft
- LWL
- 19 ft
- Beam
- 5.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.42 ft
- Displacement
- 2,253 lbs
- Ballast
- 1,340 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.68 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 18.6
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 147
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 59.5%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 200 sq ft
- I
- 21 ft
- J
- 7.28 ft
- P
- 27 ft
- E
- 10.7 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin Keel
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1948
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 90
Notes:
Designed for, and used in the 1948 Olympic Games, the SWALLOW, is still raced in a number of fleets in the UK. New boats have been built of fiberglass while the surviving wood ones are reported to have remained competitive.
A modernized rig was approved in 2010.
Designer
- Isaac Thomas Thornycroft (1881–1955)
Builders
- Abeking & Rasmussen (1907)
- Børresen Bådebyggeri (1938)
- Morgan-Giles Ltd.(UK) (1920–1969)