BoatsVictoria Marine 34

Victoria Marine 34

Masthead Sloop · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · 1985–2007

A versatile cruiser available as a masthead sloop or cutter, featuring a shallow 1.47m draft and a skeg-hung rudder

Designed by C. W. Paine.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Fin With Rudder On Skeg

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The Victoria Marine 34, on the water

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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 28 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.

Comfort ratio 28
CoastalBluewater

1.82 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.

Capsize screening 1.82
LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 250
EasygoingPowered-up

16.7 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.

Sail area / displacement 16.7
TenderStiff

43% of her weight is ballast — stiff, standing up well to her sails.

Ballast 43%

A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.

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

Compared with 2963 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Victoria Marine 34, as the fleet has seen it

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The Victoria Marine 34 is a C.W. Paine-designed masthead sloop built by Victoria Marine Ltd. from 1985 to 2007, with a fin keel and rudder on skeg. It measures 10.4 meters LOA, 3.2 meters beam, 1.5 meters draft, and displaces 5764 kg. Victoria Marine fitted out moldings laid up by Northshore Shipyard, and the molds were later sold to Classic Marine International in 2004. A cutter rig variant with a small bowsprit was also available. Rachael Sprot, a RYA Yachtmaster instructor, describes her 1973 Alfred Luders-designed sloop as similar to a Victoria 34.15:51

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
Ballast / displacement
43.5%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Masthead Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
16.7
Displacement / length
249.5
Comfort ratio
28.0
Capsize screening
1.82
Hull speed
7.1 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1075
Hull
Hull type
Fin with rudder on skeg
Construction
Fiberglass
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
1985–2007
Designer
C.W. Paine, C. W. (Chuck) Paine
Builder
Victoria Marine Ltd

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Related models

The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.

Victoria Yachts 38A fin-keeled masthead sloop with a skeg-hung rudder, built by Victoria Yachts using Northshore-laid moldingsVictoria Marine 30 (Paine)A cutter-rigged cruiser with a long keel and nearly 50% ballast ratio, built by Victoria Marine for offshore stabilityVictoria Marine 26A cutter-rigged long-keeler with a taller coach roof and shallow forward well, later marketed as the Victoria 800Victoria 26 (Mcvay)A rare masthead sloop with a keel-centerboard configuration, with perhaps only three examples still sailing todayColvic Craft Victor 34A John A. Bennett-designed masthead ketch with a long keel, sharing its hull design with the Canadian-built North Sea 34

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