ROYAL CAPE ONE-DESIGN (RCOD)
Fractional Sloop • Fin w/spade rudder • Built 1961
Dimensions
- LOA
- 29.76 ft
- LWL
- 27.89 ft
- Beam
- 6.99 ft
- Max Draft
- 5.2 ft
- Displacement
- 4,020 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.76 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 22.4
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 83
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 354 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin w/spade rudder
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Plywood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1961
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
First designed for single-chined plywood construction. Based on the ZEESLANG ('Sea Snake' vds #58 - 1956. See drawing above). A fiberglass version was built to the same single-chined hull shape, from molds that were made off a plywood boat. Built, and seen mostly in South Africa. It is what would later be called an ULBD and decades ahead of it's time. Despite the name, the RCOD was never actually raced as a one-design class.
Thanks to Dudley Dix for providing a correction.
Designer
- E. G. Van de Stadt (1910–1999)