Blue Jacket 40

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The Blue Jacket 40, on the water

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Footage from All About Sailing

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Character

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

LivelySea-kindly

Her light displacement on a moderate beam gives 25 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.

Comfort ratio 25

CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 1.94

LightHeavy

172 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.

Displacement / length 172

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 21.9

TenderStiff

37% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 37%

Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.

Draws more than ~91% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2845 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Blue Jacket 40, as the fleet has seen it

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The Blue JACKET 40 is a fractional sloop designed by Tim Jackett and Robert K. Johnson, built by Blue Jacket Yachts from 2012 to the present. It features a fin with bulb and spade rudder hull, measures 12.1 meters LOA with a 3.8-meter beam, and has a 2.3-meter draft. The boat displaces 7484 kg. A shallow draft version is available with a 1.56-meter draft.7:38 The designer, Robert K. Johnson, previously founded Island Packet Yachts in 1979, where he developed a full-foil keel design using NACA airfoil sections for tracking stability and gentle motion, a departure from the fin-keel trend of the late 1970s. Island Packet's construction involved a one-piece, hand-laminated solid fiberglass hull-and-keel molding without keel bolts, triaxial knitted laminate, and a Polyclad gel coat system.

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

37.0%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

21.9

Displacement / length

171.8

Comfort ratio

24.6

Capsize screening

1.94

Hull speed

7.9 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1542

Hull

Hull type

Fin w/bulb & spade rudder

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

First built 2012

Designer

Tim Jackett w, Robert K. Johnson

Builder

Blue Jacket Yachts

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The family

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