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A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft.
Greg Elliott is a New Zealand sailing yacht designer. [1] He is most notable for the Elliott 6m , an Olympic-class keelboat selected for the women's match racing event for the 2012 Olympics . He has designed yachts that have won all four Blue Water Classic races, the Fastnet Race , the Transpacific Yacht Race , the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race ...
The Farr 38 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of cold-moulded wood, finished with epoxy and polyurethane and fibreglass, with the New Zealand production-built boats built out of Fibreglass.
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes
Class Committee Keelboat World Championship: Open: 2020 Onwards: World Sailing – Sanctioned World Championships. ... New Zealand: 6x 49er World Championship
The Farr 727 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. [1] [2] The boat has a draft of 4.67 ft (1.42 m) with the standard keel. [1] [2]
The Beachcomber 6.5 is a semi-round bilge glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) trailerable keelboat designed and built in New Zealand 1970 to 1980 by Hart Brothers Marine. Construction is a laminate of fibreglass with a 12mm end-grain balsa core. Atypically for a New Zealand boat, the Beachcomber was designed to have either a twin keel or fin ...
The New Zealand 45 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 22,000 lb (9,979 kg) and carries 10,515 lb (4,770 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft of 8.00 ft (2.44 m). [1] [2] [5]