Swan 65

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Swan 65
Current Specifications
Type Keelboat
Construction GRP
Rig Sloop or Ketch
LOA 64 ft 11 in (19.79 m)
LWL 47 ft 0 in (14.33 m)
Beam 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m)
Draft 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m)
Mast height 80 ft 0 in (24.38 m)
Mainsail area 839.5 sq ft (77.99 m2)
Spinnaker area 3,652 sq ft (339.3 m2)
Development
Year 1971-1989
Designer Sparkman & Stephens
Infobox last updated: 13.01.2014

Swan 65 is a large, ketch or sloop rigged sailing yacht manufactured by Nautor’s Swan. The first 65-footers were delivered to their customers in 1971, and the production continued until 1989 with 41 hulls being built in total. The yacht was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and its main dimensions are length overall LOA 19,9 m, Length of waterline LWL 14,33 m Beam 4,98 m, and displacement of 31800 kg, of which 13900 kg is ballast. [1] The yacht became well known in 1974, when a ketch rigged Swan 65 by the name s/y Sayula II won the first ever Whitbread Round the World Race.[2]

In 1978's Whitbread Round the World Race a Swan 65 sloop called King's Legend finished in second place getting narrowly defeated by Conny van Rietschotens purpose built Flyer.[3][4] In the same year Clare Francis the first female skipper to compete in the race, finished fifth in her Swan 65 ADC Accutrac.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.classicswan.org/swan_65.php, Swans by S&S.]
  2. ↑ http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/history/1_history_1973-1974.html 1973–1974 / Overview, Volvo Ocean Race History.
  3. ↑ http://sparkmanstephens.blogspot.fi/2011/03/design-2273-flyer.html
  4. ↑ "Racing sail yacht Kings Legend - Swan 65". Charterworld.com. Retrieved 2014-01-10. 
  5. ↑ http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/history/2_history_1977-1978.html

Literature

  • Clare Francis, Come Wind or Weather: ADC Accutrac Races Round the World, Pelham Books, London, 1978, ISBN 978-072-07-1104-2
  • Cornelis Van Rietschoten, Barry Pickthall, Flyer: The Quest to Win the Round the World Race, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1980, ISBN 978-039-30-3248-2

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