Status 580

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Character

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

TrailerableBeam 2.24 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 400 kg of hull, so roughly 1,000 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Ramp-launchableAbout 400 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 0.15 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

CoastalBluewater

At 3.07 she sits above the 2.0 line — beamy for her weight, and happiest coastal.

Capsize screening 3.07

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 32.4

TenderStiff

30% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 30%

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

Lighter than ~84% of boats her size on file
Draws less than ~75% of boats her size on file

Compared with 458 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

30.1%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

32.4

Capsize screening

3.07

Hull

Hull type

Swing Keel

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 1974

Designer

E. G. Van de Stadt

Builder

Rob Legg

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The family

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