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Feeling 32

Fractional Sloop · Fin keel, spade rudder · First built 1999

A high-performance fractional sloop from the Joubert-Nivelt studio, designed with a light displacement for spirited sailing

Designed by Michel Joubert, Patrick Roseo & Joubert-Nivelt, built by Kirie.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Fin w/spade Rudder

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The Feeling 32, on the water

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

Footage from Hashtag Sal

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 19 — a quick, lively motion that feels every wave.

Comfort ratio 19
CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 2.16
LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 174
EasygoingPowered-up

20.5 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.

Sail area / displacement 20.5
TenderStiff

31% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 31%

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

What the fleet has seen

The Feeling 32, as the fleet has seen it

Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.

The Feeling 32 is a fractional sloop designed by Michel Joubert, Patrick Roseo, and Joubert-Nivelt, built by Kirie from 1999 to the present. It measures 9.9 meters LOA, with a 3.4-meter beam, 1.6-meter draft, and 4100 kg displacement. A lifting keel version is available, offering a draft range from 0.65 meters to 1.9 meters. The design features a fin keel with a spade rudder.

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

What they go for

Market signal

Where the fleet has seen this model come up for sale.

1seen sold

From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
31.1%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Fractional Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
20.5
Displacement / length
173.6
Comfort ratio
18.8
Capsize screening
2.16
Hull speed
7.2 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1144
Hull
Hull type
Fin w/spade rudder
Construction
Fiberglass
Ballast type
Iron
Production
Years built
First built 1999
Designer
Michel Joubert, Patrick Roseo, Joubert-Nivelt
Builder
Kirie

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