Masthead Sloop · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1975
A 1975 masthead sloop featuring a skeg-hung rudder and a displacement-to-ballast ratio built for stable, comfortable cruising
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Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her moderate displacement on a moderate beam gives 25 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.99 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
237 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.
31% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
What the fleet has seen
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The Formosa 34 is a masthead sloop with a fin keel and skeg-hung rudder, built by Formosa Boat Building Co. Ltd. from 1975 to the present. It has an LOA of 10.4 meters, a beam of 3.6 meters, a draft of 1.7 meters, and a displacement of 6168 kg. Its comfort ratio is 25.4.
The living fleet
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
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