PRIVATEER 20
Gaff Topsail Cutter • Lifting Keel • Built 1974–1976
Dimensions
- LOA
- 19.62 ft
- LWL
- 16.42 ft
- Beam
- 6.82 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 1.17 ft
- Displacement
- 1,459 lbs
- Ballast
- 440 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.40 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 23.0
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 147
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 30.2%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 185 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Lifting Keel
- Rig Type
- Gaff Topsail Cutter
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1974
- Last Built
- 1976
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
AKA simply "Privateer."
Also available with a Bermudan Cutter rig (pictured above).
Sail area for the Bermudan Cutter: 158 sq ft. / 14.7 sqm.
An earlier version of the Privateer was offered beginning around 1971. It is not clear if any were actually built though..
Specs for the earlier version as follows:
LOA: 19 ft
Beam: 8 ft
Draft: 1.42 ft - 3.08 ft
Sail area: 121 sq ft
Reported to have a 10 hp Brit "Sprite" inboard
Thanks to Oliver Shaw, owner of a Privateer 20 gaff cutter, for supplying information and documentation.