THISTLE
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1945
Dimensions
- LOA
- 17 ft
- LWL
- 17 ft
- Beam
- 6 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.5 ft
- Displacement
- 515 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.99 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 47.6
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 47
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 191 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Molded Ply/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1945
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 4000
Notes: Spin area: 220 sq ft.\n\nOther builders:\n\nNorthwest One Design \n\nGreat Midwest Yacht Company\nDoug Laber\nBox 364 \n140 E Granville Street\nSunbury, OH 43074\n740-965-4511
Designer
- Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass (1904–1992)
Builders
- Clark Boat Company (1960–1984)
- Douglass & McLeod (1951–1971)
- Schock W.D. (1946)