Gunboat 55

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The Gunboat 55, on the water

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Character

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

Shoal draftDraws 0.61 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

LightD/L 67Heavy

EasygoingSA/D 36.2Powered-up

Draws more than ~88% of boats her size on file

Compared with 190 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

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

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

36.2

Displacement / length

66.8

Hull

Hull type

Catamaran Twin Dbrd.

Construction

FG/Carbon infusion

Production

Years built

First built 2015

Designer

Nigel Irens

Builder

Gunboat

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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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