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Texas One Ton (Carter 36)

Masthead Sloop · Fin keel, spade rudder · First built 1974

A Dick Carter-designed IOR One Tonner influenced by Ganbare, offered as a finished masthead sloop or a bare hull

Designed by Dick Carter, built by Plastrend.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Hull type
Fin w/spade Rudder

Is it for you?

Character

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

LivelySea-kindly

Her moderate displacement on a moderate beam gives 23 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.

Comfort ratio 23
CoastalBluewater

2.01 — right around the 2.0 line, the edge between coastal and offshore.

Capsize screening 2.01
LightHeavy

206 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.

Displacement / length 206
EasygoingPowered-up

18.8 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.

Sail area / displacement 18.8

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

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions
Weights
Rig & sail area
Rig
Masthead Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
18.8
Displacement / length
205.8
Comfort ratio
23.1
Capsize screening
2.01
Hull speed
7.3 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1239
Hull
Hull type
Fin w/spade rudder
Construction
FG (C-Flex)
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 1974
Units built
40
Designer
Dick Carter
Builder
Plastrend, Composite Technologies

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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.

Carter 37 (1 Ton)A production version of the 1973 One Ton Cup winner YDRA, featuring an extended wedge-shaped coach roof and interior.Carter 33A series-built masthead sloop produced internationally in Greece, Australia, and Sweden with a half-ton racing pedigreeCarter 39Available as a flush-deck competition model or a trunk-cabin offshore cruiser, this 1974 masthead sloop features a skeg-hungCarter 30A long-running production masthead sloop with a skeg-hung rudder, built in Poland and Japan with over 300 hulls producedX-1 TonA Niels Jeppesen-designed IOR racer that claimed the 1986 International 1 Ton Cup with a high power-to-weight ratioHeritage 1 TonA Charles Morgan Jr. IOR one-tonner designed to reflect the competitive design shifts of the mid-1970s

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