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Nautor Swan 47
The Swan 47, also called the Swan 47 S&S, is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a Cruising (maritime), cruiser-Sailing (sport), racer and first built in 1975. The design was developed into the centreboard-equipped Swan 47-2, also called the NYYC 48 in 1976. Production The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1975 to 1984, with 70 boats completed, but it is now out of production. Design The Swan 47 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a keel-stepped mast, two sets of unswept Spreader (sailboat), spreaders and aluminium spars with discontinuous stainless steel rod rigging. The hull has a raked stem; a raised counter reverse transom; a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a Ship's wheel, wheel and a fixed, swept fin keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD21A d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparkman & Stephens
Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with offices in Newport, Rhode Island and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new and existing vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a yacht and ship brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts. Their designs have won most of the major international yacht races such as the America's Cup, for several decades, including a string of victories in the Fastnet and Sydney to Hobart as well as winning twice the Whitbread Round the World Race by '' Sayula II'' in 1974 and '' Flyer'' in 1978. S&S has a number of custom yacht design projects as well as being designers for boat builders such as Nautor's Swan, Grand Banks Yachts, and Morris Yachts. With more than 100 units built, the S&S design #1710 also known as Swan 36 became the most utilized design in the his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
