470
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1963
Dimensions
- LOA
- 15.42 ft
- LWL
- 14.58 ft
- Beam
- 5.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.17 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.5 ft
- Displacement
- 269 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.41 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 52.6
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 39
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 137 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1963
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
2 person centerboard class with trapeze.
An Olympic class since 1976. Separate events for men and women since 1988.
The 470 is sailed in more than 60 countries.
Spinnaker: 140 sq. ft.
1 Trapeze.
Designer
- Andre Cornu (1912–2003)
Builders
- Fountaine Pajot (1976)
- MacKay Boats Ltd. (1962)
- Mader Bootswerft (1954)
- Nautivela (ITA) (1961)
- Parker Yachts (UK) (1963–2009)