Swan 65
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| Designer | Sparkman & Stephens |
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| Year | 1971–1989 |
| No. Built | 41 |
| brand | Swan |
| Builder(s) | OY Nautor AB |
| Boat Weight | 31,800 kg (70,100 lb) |
| Draft | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Air Draft | 80 ft 0 in (24.38 m) |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | GRP |
| LOH | 19.68 m (64.6 ft) |
| LWL | 14.334 m (47.03 ft) |
| Beam | 3.96 m (13.0 ft) |
| Engine Type | Volvo Penta MD32 89 hp Perkins H6.354M 115 hp TMD41A, 148 hp |
| Ballast | 10,400 kg (22,900 lb) - 13,900 kg (30,600 lb) |
| Rig Type | Sloop or Ketch |
| I (Foretriangle Height) | 24.38 m (80.0 ft) Sloop 22.83 m (74.9 ft) Ketch |
| J (Foretriangle Base) | 7.73 m (25.4 ft) Sloop 7.38 m (24.2 ft) Ketch |
| P (Mainsail Luff) | 22.25 m (73.0 ft) Sloop 20.64 m (67.7 ft) Ketch |
| E (Mainsail Foot) | 7.01 m (23.0 ft) Sloop 5.58 m (18.3 ft) Ketch |
| Rig Other | 13.73 m (45.0 ft) Mizzen P 3.68 m (12.1 ft) Mizzen E |
| Mainsail area | 839.5 sq ft (77.99 m2) |
| Spinnaker area | 3,652 sq ft (339.3 m2) |
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Swan 65 is a large, GRP constructed, fin keeled masthead ketch or sloop rigged sailing yacht manufactured by Nautor’s Swan. It was introduced as the new flagship of Nautor in 1973. Swan 65 is in many respect a remarkable piece of engineering as at the time of its launch it was the largest GRP constructed yacht in the market and because of its excellent racing history, one of the most famous Swan models ever built. The first 65-footers were delivered to owners in 1973, and the production continued until 1989 with 41 hulls being built in total. The yacht was designed by Sparkman & Stephens which was considered by many, the number one yacht design company at the time. Swan 65 was designed to I.O.R Mk III to fulfil the continuously increasing demand for bigger sailing/racing yachts in the market. In order meet this demand Nautor had asked Olin Stephens to design a beautiful, fast and safe sailing yacht to continue the development of Swan range. Stephens combined the requested characteristics in a fiberglass hull together with a luxurious interior and technical features that were then current in successful racing boats. Its main dimensions are length overall LOA 19,9 m, Length of waterline LWL 14,33 m Beam 4,98 m. Up until the hull #019, the displacement was 31800 kg of which 10400 kg was ballast. From the hull #020 onwards the ballast was increased to 13900 kg resulting to a displacement of 35300 kg. Therefore, for the first 19 hulls the ballast to weight ratio was 31% which was then increased to 39% for the rest of the production. Although it replaced Swan 55 as the flagship of Nautor, the yacht has no actual predecessor in the Nautors own range and according to the designers comments the design is based on a successful American aluminium yacht Dora IV.
After the breakthrough in 1968 Cowes Week, Swans continued to score famous victories in the early seventies by winning several famous races including the Bermuda Race in 1972 and 1992 by Swan 48 and most notably in 1973–1974, when a brand new ketch rigged Swan 65 by the name Sayula II won the first ever Whitbread Round the World Race (Currently known as the Volvo Ocean Race) skippered by Ramon Carlin. It took 133 days and 13 hours for Sayula II to sail the full race distance of 32,500 nautical miles. In 2016, this adventure will be presented in a documentary film called The Weeked Sailor.
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