CAPE NORTH 43
Staysail Ketch • Fin with rudder on skeg • Built 1977
Dimensions
- LOA
- 43.24 ft
- LWL
- 35.33 ft
- Beam
- 12.66 ft
- Max Draft
- 6.3 ft
- Min Draft
- 2.19 ft
- Displacement
- 25,000 lbs
- Ballast
- 11,200 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.73 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 15.1
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 253
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 44.8%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 807 sq ft
- I
- 52.8 ft
- J
- 18.3 ft
- P
- 46.3 ft
- E
- 14 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin with rudder on skeg
- Rig Type
- Staysail Ketch
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1977
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Engine & Accommodations
- Engine Make
- Universal
- Engine Model
- M50B
- Engine Type
- Diesel
- Water
- 180 gal
- Fuel
- 90 gal
Notes: This from designer, Ted Brewer: "The yacht is a grp version of the custom, wood, 'Black Velvet' (see her on www.tedbrewer.com under Sail - Wood.). The first fibreglass versions were built by Cape North in Hong Kong, in the mid '70s, as the Cape North 43. Later a Philippine firm obtained the molds and produced a few.\nThe CN 43s were good boats and several did well in prestigious ocean races in the '70s and '80s, including a China Sea Race fro HK to Manila. Others survived some severe storms in the Atlantic on their way to Britain from the builders. The CN 43s seem to have been well built, under British management, but I have no idea of the quality of their Philippine sisterships."\nOwners plans can be purchased from Ted's Site shown above.\n
Designer
- Edward S. Brewer (1933–2021)