SWALLOW
Fractional Sloop • Fin Keel • Built 1948
Dimensions
- LOA
- 25.42 ft
- LWL
- 19 ft
- Beam
- 5.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.42 ft
- Displacement
- 2,253 lbs
- Ballast
- 1,340 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.68 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 18.6
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 147
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 59.5%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 200 sq ft
- I
- 21 ft
- J
- 7.28 ft
- P
- 27 ft
- E
- 10.7 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin Keel
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1948
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 90
Notes: Designed for, and used in the 1948 Olympic Games, the SWALLOW, is still raced in a number of fleets in the UK. New boats have been built of fiberglass while the surviving wood ones are reported to have remained competitive.\nA modernized rig was approved in 2010.
Designer
- Isaac Thomas Thornycroft (1881–1955)
Builders
- Abeking & Rasmussen (1907)
- Børresen Bådebyggeri (1938)
- Morgan-Giles Ltd.(UK) (1920–1969)