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Seascape 18

Fractional Sloop · Lifting Keel With Dual Rudders · First built 2008

A 5.5-metre trailerable sportboat with a high 35.25 SA/D ratio built for agile, high-performance coastal sailing

Designed by Samuel Manuard.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Lifting Keel With Dual Rudders

Is it for you?

Character

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

TrailerableBeam 2.37 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 567 kg of hull, so roughly 1,150 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Ramp-launchableAbout 567 kg of hull, with a keel that raises or a draft shallow enough to float off a trailer — she can go back on the trailer at the ramp, not only into the water.Shoal draftDraws 0.18 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
CoastalBluewater

At 2.89 she sits above the 2.0 line — beamy for her weight, and happiest coastal.

Capsize screening 2.89
EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 35.3
TenderStiff

22% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 22%

Powered-up and quick to accelerate — this one likes to sail.

  • Draws more than ~79% of boats her size on file

Compared with 391 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
22.1%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Fractional Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
35.3
Capsize screening
2.89
Hull
Hull type
Lifting keel with dual rudders
Construction
Fiberglass
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 2008
Designer
Samuel Manuard
Builder
Seascape

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