ESTUARY ONE-DESIGN (UK)
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1911
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 16.75 ft
- Beam
- 6 ft
- Max Draft
- 3 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.9 ft
- Displacement
- 850 lbs
- Ballast
- 200 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.53 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 37.4
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 81
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 23.5%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 210 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1911
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 115
Notes:
Originally commisioned by the Alexanra Yacht Club and the Essex Yacht Club in 1911 for sailing around the Thames estuary. (UK) It was somewhat eclipsed after WWI by a new but similar design which became the ESSEX ONE-DESIGN (1919, also by Morgan-Giles).
In 1950, designer, Norman Dallimore was retained to create a standardized set of drawings for the THAMES ESTUARY ONE-DESIGN, with a new sailplan and updated specifications.
A new FG version was developed in 1966 when the TEOD merged with the ESSEX ONE-DESIGN. See the class website for more information. http://www.eodclass.org.uk
Designers
- Norman Edward Dallimore (1883–1959)
- Francis Charles Morgan-Giles (1883–1964)