Masthead Ketch · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1975
A 21-metre masthead ketch with a 50-tonne displacement, built for serious long-range cruising in comfort
Designed by Camper, Nicholson, Ray Wall & Raymond Wall.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Sven Yrvind
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a narrow beam gives 67 — a heavy, notably soft motion offshore.
At 1.42 she sits well under the 2.0 line — a solidly ocean-capable hull for her size.
308 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
12.1 — modest power for her weight; easygoing rather than lively, and happier with a breeze.
Built heavy and sea-kindly — a boat made to cross oceans and forgive a rough night.
Compared with 274 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
What the fleet has seen
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The Nicholson 70 is a masthead ketch designed by Camper, Nicholson, Ray Wall, and Raymond Wall, built from 1975 to the present. It measures 21.3 meters LOA, with a 5.2-meter beam, 2.6-meter draft, and displaces 50,666 kg. The hull features a fin with a rudder on skeg.
The living fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
The record
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
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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