Com-Pac Yachts 33

BoatsCom-Pac Yachts 33

See her sail

The Com-Pac Yachts 33, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from Sailing Into Oblivion

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

Comfort ratio 21

CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 2.13

LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 224

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 18.5

TenderStiff

47% of her weight is ballast — stiff, standing up well to her sails.

Ballast 47%

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

Draws less than ~96% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2964 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Com-Pac Yachts 33, as the fleet has seen it

Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.

The Com-Pac Yachts 33 is a masthead sloop designed by Charles Morgan Jr. and built by Com-Pac Yachts, Hutchins Co. from 1999 to the present. It features a Sheel Keel hull, measures 10.6 meters LOA with a 3.6-meter beam, draws 1.2 meters, and displaces 4989 kg. Aboard *Sailing Into Oblivion*, a 1991 Com-Pac 33 was prepared for a solo circumnavigation from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii, with the owner describing it as a large trailer-sailor model with an encapsulated keel.1:40 The owner performed deck repairs for a windlass installation and general system upgrades, and used a large dehumidifier for interior climate control.14:04

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

47.3%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Masthead Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

18.5

Displacement / length

223.7

Comfort ratio

21.1

Capsize screening

2.13

Hull speed

7.1 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1184

Hull

Hull type

Sheel Keel

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 1999

Designer

Charles Morgan Jr

Builder

Com-Pac Yachts, Hutchins Co

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