Review of Kass-Rol

Basic specs.

The Kass-Rol is a sailboat designed by the French maritime architect Louis Costantini in the early fifties. Only a few boats have been produced. The Kass-Rol is built by the French yard Chantier Costantini.

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Rig

The boat equipped with a fractional rig. A fractional rig has smaller headsails which make tacking easier, which is an advantage for cruisers and racers, of course. The downside is that having the wind from behind often requires a genaker or a spinnaker for optimal speed.

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.

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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.

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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**
Usage	Length		Diameter
Jib sheet	9.5 m	(31.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Genoa sheet	9.5 m	(31.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Mainsheet	23.7 m	(77.6 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Spinnaker sheet	20.8 m	(68.3 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.