WHISTLER CLASS (RHODES)
Fractional Sloop • Keel/Cbrd. • Built 1949
Dimensions
- LOA
- 38.5 ft
- LWL
- 26 ft
- Beam
- 10 ft
- Max Draft
- 7 ft
- Min Draft
- 4 ft
- Displacement
- 18,000 lbs
- Ballast
- 6,000 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.53 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- —
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 457
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 33.3%
Construction
- Hull Type
- Keel/Cbrd.
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood planked
- Ballast Type
- Lead
Production
- First Built
- 1949
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
Rhodes Design #588.
First boats built by Houde & Bergeron, Ltd. of Quebec CAN.
14 built by T. Knutson at LI NY beginning in 1951, as well as handful of others in the US.
Designer
- Philip Rhodes (1895–1974)
Builder
- Knutson Shipbuilding Corp. (1935)