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The Paceship Chance 32/28 (Chance 32) is a small recreational keelboat.It has a masthead sloop rig, a skeg-hung rudder, and a fixed fin keel.The boat has a draft of 5.75 ft (1.75 m). [1]
It has a cutter rig, a raked stem, a canoe style transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed raked fin keel with a cutaway forefoot. It displaces 17,700 lb (8,029 kg) and carries 5,750 lb (2,608 kg) of lead ballast. [1] [3] The boat has a draft of 4.92 ft (1.50 m) with the standard keel fitted. [1]
The rudder attaches to the skeg and is steered by cables attached to it. In select sweeping boats, typically fours and eights, a coxswain will control the rudder, while in sculling boats and some sweeping boats, especially pairs, the rudder will be controlled with toe-steering. [4] A skeg typically consists of a flat piece of metal or plastic. [5]
S&S 34 is a cruising and racing fibreglass monohull sailboat class. It was based on a design by Olin Stephens from Sparkman and Stephens after a commission from British yachtsman Michael Winfield. [2] The design features a skeg-hung rudder and a Bermuda rig with a large, overlapping headsail.
Reviewer Steve Knauth described the design in 2014, in Soundings, "the 44 was different from the old schooners, with its cutter rig, keel/centerboard and skeg-hung rudder. Yet it was perfectly in the Alden tradition of racing/cruising yachts.
Aloha 28 Aloha 28 Aloha 28. The Aloha 28 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder mounted on a skeg and a fixed swept fin keel.
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]
The Pacific Seacraft 44 is a bluewater cruising yacht produced since 1990 by Pacific Seacraft of Washington, North Carolina.Although of GRP construction, the yacht is traditionally built with a cutter rig, skeg-hung rudder, canoe stern and semi-long keel.