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The yacht is traditionally lined and styled, but is built from solid glassfibre composite with a fin and skeg underwater profile. To achieve a good seakeeping ability for ocean cruising, the yacht is heavily constructed, and well ballasted. In addition, the yacht incorporates a strong skeg hung rudder. [1]
It has a masthead sloop rig, a transom and skeg-hung rudder, wheel steering and a fixed fin keel or optionally a swing keel as the Tanzer 10 LK. The boat displaces 13,000 lb (5,897 kg) and carries 5,700 lb (2,585 kg) of ballast. [1] [5] The boat is powered by a Japanese-made Yanmar diesel engine of 30 hp (22 kW).
The original designer Sparkman & Stephens had a long association with Nautor and were responsible for the first 775 yachts sold. These early designs combined a luxurious interior in a fiberglass hull with features that were then current in successful racing boats, such as the separation of the skeg-hung rudder from the keel.
With a relatively low aspect keel and skeg forward of the rudder, wetted surface is greater than the comparably sized Catalina or Pearson 30s. Typically the PHRF rating of the standard keel version of the 9.2 is about six seconds slower per mile than the Pearson 30, and about 15 seconds slower than the tall rig Catalina 30.
Swan 37 is a GRP constructed, fin keeled, one tonner masthead sloop and successor to the Swan 36.It was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and manufactured by Nautor Oy between 1970 and 1974 with total of 59 boats being built.
The hull has a raked stem; a raised counter, reverse transom; a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 7,276 lb (3,300 kg) and carries 3,417 lb (1,550 kg) of lead ballast. [1] [2] The boat has a draft of 5.10 ft (1.55 m) with the standard keel. [1] [2]
The Hughes-Columbia 36 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig or optional ketch rig, a centre-cockpit, a spooned raked stem, a raised transom, a skeg-mounted spade-type/transom-hung rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.
The Herreshoff America is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It is a gaff-rigged catboat with a plumb stem and a plumb transom; a shallow, transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and retractable, steel centerboard that stows in a trunk. It displaces 2,500 lb (1,134 kg) and carries 500 lb (227 kg) of ...