NEW YORK YACHT CLUB 40
Gaffhead Sloop • Fin Keel • Built 1916–1926
Dimensions
- LOA
- 59 ft
- LWL
- 40 ft
- Beam
- 14.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 8.16 ft
- Displacement
- 48,200 lbs
- Ballast
- 24,555 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.59 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- —
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 336
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 50.9%
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin Keel
- Rig Type
- Gaffhead Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1916
- Last Built
- 1926
- Number Built
- 14
Notes:
The NEW YORK YACHT CLUB 40's were among the last yachts designed to the Universal Rule.
Of approximately 14 of this class built for New York Y.C. members, 6 survive as of 2006.
Designer
- Nathaniel G. Herreshoff (1848–1938)
Builder
- Herreshoff Mfg. Co. (1878–1943)