The Seaward Fox is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Nick Hake as a pocket cruiser and first built in 1993.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 56.

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/ McGraw-Hill, 2010. The Fox is a development of the 1981 Slipper 17.

Production

The design was built by

Hake Yachts Hake Yachts, also called Seaward Yachts, was an American boat builder based in Carmel, Indiana. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. The company was founded in 1973 by boat designer Nick Hake, a gr ...

in the United States, from 1993 until 2007, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Seaward Fox is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a 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 or unstayed catboat rig with a tall mast, an optional bowsprit, a nearly plumb stem, a slightly angled

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 ...

, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed shoal-draft

wing keel The winged keel is a sailboat keel layout first fitted on the 12-metre class yacht ''Australia II'', 1983 America's Cup winner. Design This layout was adopted by Ben Lexcen, designer of ''Australia II''. Although Ben Lexcen "had tried the winged ...

. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double

"V"-berth A berth is a bed or sleeping accommodation on vehicles. Space accommodations have contributed to certain common design elements of berths. Beds in boats or ships While beds on large ships are little different from those on shore, the lack ...

in the bow cabin and two straight settee berths in the main cabin. The

galley A galley is a type of ship that is propelled mainly by oars. The galley is characterized by its long, slender hull, shallow draft, and low freeboard (clearance between sea and gunwale). Virtually all types of galleys had sails that could be used ...

is located on both sides just aft of the bow cabin. The galley is equipped with a stove to port and a sink to starboard. The

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is located in the bow cabin, centered aft, under the "V"-berth. Cabin headroom is . The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "designer Hake has taken the same basic beamy hull that he created in 1979 with the Slipper Deckhouse 17 ... spruced her up with fancier oval ports and other gear, increased some of her dimensions slightly. and changed her name. For a while she was available with either a sloop rig or a very tall cat rig (bridge clearance 33' for the cat, 8' less for the sloop) ... Best features: We think she's relatively good-looking, with springy sheer, pronounced tumblehome, molded bulwarks, and nice fittings such as shiny stainless opening oval ports and cowl vent on the cabintop. Her self-bailing cockpit is deep and comfortable for two people, and her interior is relatively spacious considering her modest LOD; her Space Index is highest of her comp

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. The rotating freestanding carbon-fiber mast is 28' 6" long, weighs only 33 pounds, and is secured by a two-footlong sliding aluminum tube inside the mast, which couples the upper mast to a rotating mast bearing on the deck, It is claimed that the vessel takes less than five minutes to rig at a boat ramp, Worst features: Her shallow fixed keel, despite the small wings, prevents pointing as high as her comp

, especially in light air."

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Video of sailing a Seaward Fox
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Design

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