Victory (Cowes)

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Character

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

TrailerableBeam 1.78 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 680 kg of hull, so roughly 1,300 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Ramp-launchableAbout 680 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 0.76 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 2.04

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 23.9

TenderStiff

67% of her weight is ballast — very stiff, carrying full sail in a blow.

Ballast 67%

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

Lighter than ~90% of boats her size on file
Draws less than ~83% of boats her size on file
Narrower than ~98% of boats her size on file

Compared with 125 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

66.7%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

23.9

Capsize screening

2.04

Hull

Hull type

Long Keel

Construction

Wood(clinker)/FG

Production

Years built

First built 1934

Units built

80

Designer

A. Westmacott, S. Graham, Alfred Westmacott

Builder

Nicholson, David Heritage Racing Yachts

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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.

Victory 21A high-performance one-design sloop with a 24.9 SA/D ratio, produced across four decades by builders including Catalina.

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