ARROW
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1935–1967
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 16.33 ft
- Beam
- 5.33 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.25 ft
- Min Draft
- 1.25 ft
- Displacement
- 750 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.35 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 34.9
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 77
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 180 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1935
- Last Built
- 1967
- Number Built
- —
Notes: The ARROW was once a popular one-design class on Lake Michigan (USA). Though the original builder went out of business after World War II and it's thought that nor more than 200 were ever built.\nIt survived a transition to fiberglass construction, but did not thrive afterward.\nRaced with main and jib only. As best as can be determined, any kind of class organization had disappeared by 1970.\n(Even a photograph has proved to be hard to find.)\nPictured here is a later fiberglass version built by Stamm Boat Co.\nStamm Boat Co. was located in Delefield, Wisconsin, (USA) It's unlikely that any boats were built commercially after 1967.\nUpdate (November 2018): The Arrow is still being raced on lake Michigan with the last remaining fleet (~10 boats of which around 4 race regularly) based in Wilmette Harbor.