BoatsLockley-Newport Boats Ln-23

Lockley-Newport Boats Ln-23

Fractional Sloop · Keel/centreboard · First built 1978

A versatile keel-centerboard cruiser that evolved through three different production names starting in 1978

Designed by Stuart Windley & Harry R. Sindle.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Keel/Cbrd.

See her sail

The Lockley-Newport Boats Ln-23, on the water

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

Footage from keeldragger

Is it for you?

Character

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

TrailerableBeam 2.44 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 1,225 kg of hull, so roughly 1,800 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Shoal draughtDraws 0.59 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
LivelySea-kindly

Her light displacement on a beamy beam gives 13 — a quick, lively motion that feels every wave.

Comfort ratio 13
CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 2.30
LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 151
EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 19.5
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 ~79% of boats her size on file

Compared with 610 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Lockley-Newport Boats Ln-23, as the fleet has seen it

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

The Lockley-Newport Boats Ln-23 is a fractional sloop with a keel/centerboard hull, designed by Stuart Windley and Harry R. Sindle, and built by Lockley-Newport Boats from 1978 to the present. It measures 7.0 meters LOA, with a 2.4-meter beam, a 1.7-meter draft, and displaces 1224 kg. The model later evolved into the GLOUCESTER 22 and then the CLASSIC 22. A 23-foot Newport was seen anchored at White Cove on Catalina Island, California, during a cruisers' meetup hosted by *KeelDragger*.12:58

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

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The record

Full specifications

The complete reference set — tap any figure to switch between metric and imperial.

Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
37.0%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Fractional Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
19.5
Displacement / length
150.7
Comfort ratio
12.5
Capsize screening
2.30
Hull speed
6.0 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
572
Hull
Hull type
Keel/Cbrd.
Construction
Fiberglass
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 1978
Designer
Stuart Windley, Harry R. Sindle
Builder
Lockley-Newport Boats, Lockley Newport Boats

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The family

Boats like this

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

Lockley-Newport Ln-27A versatile masthead sloop designed by Windley and Sindle that was later produced as the Gloucester 27Gloucester 22A fractional sloop with a keel-centerboard configuration, originally the LN 23 and later produced as the Classic 22Newport Boats 212A 1972 fractional swing-keel sloop with a high sail-area-to-displacement ratio for spirited, trailerable performanceNewport 214A lightweight fractional sloop with a high sail-area-to-displacement ratio, built for spirited sailing in 1975-76Gloucester 27A fractional sloop with a fin keel and spade rudder, designed by Stuart Windley and Harry R. Sindle as a successor to the LN-27

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