The Sprinto is a French
trailerable sailboat that was designed by
Joubert Nivelt Design as a
racer and first built in 2000.
Production
The design was built by
Archambault Boats of
Dangé-Saint-Romain,
France, starting in 2000, but it is now out of production. Archambault, which had been founded in 1967, went out of business in 2015.
The design was changed through its production run, incorporating design changes over time.
Design
The Sprinto is a recreational
keelboat, built predominantly of
fibreglass. 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 with
aluminum spars, a deck-stepped mast, wire
standing rigging and a single set of swept spreaders. The hull has a
plumb stem, a sharply
reverse transom, a transom-hung
rudder controlled by a
tiller and a
swing keel
The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well. As the laying down of the keel is the initial step in the construction of a ship, in B ...
. Later models had a drop keel and a revised sailplan layout. It mounts a retractable
bowsprit, displaces and carries of ballast.
The boat has a draft of with the swing keel extended and with it retracted, allowing
beaching or ground transportation on a
trailer.
The boat is normally fitted with a small
outboard motor for docking and manoeuvring.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an
asymmetrical spinnaker. It has a
hull speed of .
See also
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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
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{{Trailer sailers and Trailer yachts worldwide
Keelboats
2000s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Joubert-Nivelt
Sailboat types built by Archambault Boats