SHANNON ONE-DESIGN
Gunter • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1920
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 16.83 ft
- Beam
- 4.94 ft
- Max Draft
- 4 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.94 ft
- Displacement
- 800 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.13 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 26.0
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 75
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 140 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Gunter
- Hull Material
- Wood-Clinker
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1920
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 170
Notes:
Raced in Ireland to this day (Ballyglass on Lough Ree and Dromineer on Lough Derg)
New hull and sail specifications were adopted in 1989.
Designer
- Francis Charles Morgan-Giles (1883–1964)