Island Packet Yachts Big Fish
Lateen · Dbrd. Dinghy · First built 2006
A high-performance lateen-rigged dinghy designed by Island Packet staff as a nimble, easy-to-rig daysailer
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Hull type
- Dbrd. Dinghy
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
TrailerableBeam 1.52 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 120 kg of hull, so roughly 700 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Ramp-launchableAbout 120 kg of hull, with a keel that raises or a draft shallow enough to float off a trailer — she can go back on the trailer at the ramp, not only into the water.Shoal draftDraws 0.10 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
CoastalCapsize 3.12Bluewater
EasygoingSA/D 44.3Powered-up
Powered-up and quick to accelerate — this one likes to sail.
- Narrower than ~77% of boats her size on file
Compared with 318 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
The record
Full specifications
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Dimensions
Weights
Rig & sail area
Rig
Lateen
Ratios
SA / displacement
44.3
Capsize screening
3.12
Hull
Hull type
Dbrd. Dinghy
Construction
Fiberglass
Production
Years built
First built 2006
Builder
Island Packet Yachts
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The family
Related models
The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.
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