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Fractional Sloop · Lifting Keel · First built 1997
A lightweight, high-performance fractional sloop by Dudley Dix available as plans or a kit for home construction
Designed by Dudley Dix, built by Mboats International Ltd.
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
The record
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