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Review of Super Sailfish


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Super Sailfish is a small sailboat designed by the maritime architect Alexander Bryan together with Cortland Heyniger in the late fifties. The Super Sailfish is built by the American yard Alcort, Inc..

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Hull
The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

Stability and Safety

What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?

The capsize screening value for Super Sailfish is 2.57, indicating that this boat would not be accepted to participate in ocean races.


Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Super Sailfish is about 24 kg/cm, alternatively 139 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 24 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 139 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.


Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Super Sailfish is 4.60.

Wide Slim 100% 0 50 100
Compared with other similar sailboats it is slimmer than 100% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more speedy hull design. This type of design is also referred to as 'needle'.


Maintenance

Rig

If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.



Guiding dimensions of running rig
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 4.1 m(13.6 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Genoa sheet 4.1 m(13.6 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Mainsheet 10.3 m(34.0 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Spinnaker sheet9.1 m(29.9 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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Finally

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