The M34 is a French
sailboat that was designed by
Joubert/Nivelt/Mercier as a
one-design racer and first built in 2010. The boat was used as the class for the
Tour de France à la voile.
Production
The design was built by
Archambault Boats
Archambault Boats was a French boat builder based in Dangé-Saint-Romain. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of monohull fibreglass sailboats and often partnered with the BG Race shipyard in Saint-Malo to produce its larger b ...
in
France from 2010 until 2013, but it is now out of production.
Design
The M34 is a racing
keelboat, built predominantly of
fibreglass with a sandwiched core. It has a 7/8
fractional sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
rig with a
carbon fibre keel-stepped mast and fixed
bowsprit, and an
aluminum boom
Boom may refer to:
Objects
* Boom (containment), a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill
* Boom (navigational barrier), an obstacle used to control or block marine navigation
* Boom (sailing), a sailboat part
* Boom (windsurfi ...
. The mast has two sets of 20° swept spreaders. The hull has a
plumb stem, a raised plumb
transom
Transom may refer to:
* Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar
* Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet
* Operation Tran ...
, an internally mounted spade-type
rudder controlled by a
tiller and a fin
keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast.
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The keel can be partially raised for ground transportation and gives a draft of with it raised.
The boat is fitted with a Swedish
Volvo diesel engine of with a
saildrive for docking and manoeuvring, supplied by a fuel tank with a capacity of .
The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, in two cabins. The below decks headroom is
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an
asymmetrical spinnaker of . It has a
hull speed of .
Operational history
The boat served as the one-design class for the
Tour de France à la voile from 2011 to 2014.
See also
*
List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
References
External links
Archambault M34 video WalkthroughArchambault M34 video sailing in high winds
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Keelboats
2010s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Joubert-Nivelt
Sailboat types built by Archambault Boats
Tour de France à la voile