DUXBURY DUCK
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard (Trunk) • Built 1925
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 15.08 ft
- Beam
- 6.33 ft
- Max Draft
- 2.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.58 ft
- Displacement
- 700 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.85 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 69.4
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 91
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 342 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard (Trunk)
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood planked
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1925
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 60
Notes:
Alden design #250.
Originally called DUXBURY DUCK KNOCKABOUT.
Designed for the shoal ridden waters of Duxbury Bay Mass. (USA). It is thought that few of the original boats exist. New Boats reportedly have been built by: Snug Harbor Boatworks (USA)
(By 2013 one was completely restored at Jones River Landing in Kingston, MA)
Designer
- John G. Alden (1884–1962)
Builder
- Chaisson Boat Builders (USA) (1909–1954)