Rustler Yachts 42
Cutter · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1999
A 12.8-metre cutter with a 40% ballast ratio, engineered for heavy-weather stability and long-range blue water autonomy
Designed by Stephen Jones.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Fin With Rudder On Skeg
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The Rustler Yachts 42, on the water
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Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 35 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.
1.80 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
309 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
17.4 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.
40% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
- Heavier than ~84% of boats her size on file
- Beamier than ~77% of boats her size on file
Compared with 2639 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
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Seen 2 times across one channel of the fleet.
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