Etap 32s

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The Etap 32s, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from American Sailing

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LivelySea-kindly

Her light displacement on a moderate beam gives 17 — a quick, lively motion that feels every wave.

Comfort ratio 17

CoastalBluewater

2.24 — right around the 2.0 line, the edge between coastal and offshore.

Capsize screening 2.24

LightHeavy

175 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.

Displacement / length 175

EasygoingPowered-up

22.2 — a lot of sail for her weight; powered-up and eager, a real performer.

Sail area / displacement 22.2

TenderStiff

30% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 30%

Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.

What the fleet has seen

The Etap 32s, as the fleet has seen it

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The Etap 32s is a 9.8-meter fractional sloop designed by Mortain-Mavrikios and built by Etap Yachting from 2003 to the present. It features a wing keel with a draft of 1.8 meters and a displacement of 3699 kg.0:50 Etap marketed the Belgian-built 32s for its unsinkable construction.1:24 Aboard *American Sailing*, an Etap 32s serves as a training vessel for an American Sailing Association (ASA) school on Florida's Gulf Coast, operating in the protected waters of Charlotte Harbor among barrier islands like Cayo Costa, Sanibel, and Captiva.1:02 The school uses the 32s for instruction up to the ASA 106 level and also organizes international flotillas, including a trip to the Aeolian Islands in Sicily.2:46

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

29.7%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

22.2

Displacement / length

175.1

Comfort ratio

17.4

Capsize screening

2.24

Hull speed

7.0 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1105

Hull

Hull type

Wing Keel

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 2003

Designer

Mortain-Mavrikios, Mortain, Mavrikios

Builder

Etap Yachting

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