Safety and Comfort

Features

Construction

  • Molded, cored hull and deck with bonded-in reinforcing
  • Fully bonded hull/deck joint
  • Unidirectional "S" glass keel fin with cast lead ballast pod
  • Composite rudder blade (foam, fibreglass, vinyl ester resin),guaranteed not to de-laminate  *
  • Unsinkable hull with 1,100 lbs internal (foam) flotation
  • Rubrail bonded to gunwales  *

Hull and Deck Features

  • Long waterline, high-freeboard hull for performance and safety
  • Protected cockpit with spray-deck and wave deflecting flange
  • Non-skid deck surface
  • Reinforced deck  *
  • Reinforced bow  *
  • Fully adjustable, fiberglass helm seat (removable)
  • Newly designed companion seat provides more legroom (removable)
  • Standard hull/deck color: white

Control Features

  • “Joystick” helm system
  • Self-tacking, boomed jib
  • All control lines lead to helms station: main sheet; jib sheet; vang; outhaul; cunningham; main and jib halyards
  • 12:1 purchase keel lift system  *
  • High-capacity manual bilge pump

Rigging

  • Tapered, anodized aluminum spars
  • Vinyl-coated stainless steel rigging  *
  • HARKEN blocks and cleats
  • All control lines are high-modulus SPECTRA fiber

*KAPE Boatworks improvements