Gunboat 66

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The Gunboat 66, on the water

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

Is it for you?

Character

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

Shoal draughtDraws 0.67 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 64

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 34.2

What the fleet has seen

The Gunboat 66, as the fleet has seen it

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

The Gunboat 66 is a 20.1-meter fractional sloop catamaran with twin daggerboards, designed by Morelli, Melvin, and Morrelli, and built by Gunboat since 2007. It displaces 15,422 kg with a 34.2 SA/disp ratio. Gunboat, the builder, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2015 with $15.6 million in debt, following high manufacturing costs and litigation over its 60 series.watch Grand Large Yachting acquired the brand in 2016, moving production to La Grande Motte, France, and later launched the Gunboat 68.1:49 The company's history is intertwined with other performance catamaran builders like HH Catamarans, which emerged from legal disputes involving Gunboat founder Peter Johnstone.7:36

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen 2 times across 2 channels of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

34.2

Displacement / length

63.7

Hull

Hull type

Catamaran Twin Dbrd.

Construction

FG/epoxy/nomex

Production

Years built

First built 2007

Designer

Morelli, Melvin, Morrelli

Builder

Gunboat

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The family

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Nearby designs by size, type, and era — worth a look alongside her.

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