Ron Moore Jester

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The Ron Moore Jester, on the water

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Character

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

TrailerableBeam 1.19 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 41 kg of hull, so roughly 650 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Ramp-launchableAbout 41 kg of hull, with a keel that raises or a draught shallow enough to float off a trailer — she can go back on the trailer at the ramp, not only into the water.Shoal draughtDraws 0.15 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

CoastalBluewater

At 3.50 she sits above the 2.0 line — beamy for her weight, and happiest coastal.

Capsize screening 3.50

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 47.8

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

Draws less than ~90% of boats her size on file
Narrower than ~87% of boats her size on file

Compared with 40 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Ron Moore Jester, as the fleet has seen it

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

The Ron Moore Jester is a 2.4-meter single-handed one-design dinghy designed by George Olson and Ron Moore, built by Ron Moore and Moore Sailboats since 1970. It features an unstayed cat rig, a daggerboard dinghy hull, a 1.2-meter beam, and a 0.5-meter draft, displacing 40 kg. The boat is primarily seen in Northern California, USA. Mikael Ritchie, connected to the Royal Institute of Navigation, sailed a Ron Moore Jester.4:44

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Rig & sail area

Rig

Cat (unstayed)

Ratios

SA / displacement

47.8

Capsize screening

3.50

Hull

Hull type

Dbrd. Dinghy

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 1970

Units built

295

Designer

George Olson, Ron Moore

Builder

Ron Moore, Moore Sailboats

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Fairey Marine Ltd. Duckling2.74 mSame hull family0.3 m longerA 2.74-metre cat-rigged dinghy imported to the US by George O'Day during the mid-1950s

The Hatching [of two duckling dinghies]3:58 from Classic Yacht TV

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