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Virgo Voyager |
Brief Notes |
Builder |
Newbridge Boats, and N.B. Yachts
Ltd., Somerset |
The Virgo Voyager
has remarkably spacious accommodation for her size, with 6
foot headroom in the saloon. Despite the high-volume hull,
they sail well, with a high 50% ballast ratio. Most have inboard
engines, Volvo Penta and Buhk diesels and Vire petrol engines
were fitted, plus a few were supplied with outboard power
via a transom bracket |
Length OA |
23' 0" |
Sail Area |
333 sq ft main and genoa |
Length WL |
19' 10" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
8' 4" |
Cabins |
2 |
Draught |
2' 9" bilge keel, 4' 0"
fin keel or 2' 0" to 5' 0" centreboard version (rare) |
Berths |
4/5 |
Displacement |
4,400 lbs |
Engine type |
inboard or outboard |
Ballast |
2,200 lbs |
Engine bhp |
7 - 12 |
Keel type |
Choice of twin bilge keels, longish
fin keel, or centreboard in stub fin keel, all with rudder
on half skeg |
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Designed by Ron Lunney in 1972 for Newbridge
Boats, the Virgo Voyager is a strongly constructed small cruiser,
with good accommodation for its size, providing up to five berths
if required, with six foot headroom in the saloon. The high
freeboard and cabin top needed to achieve this is disguised
considerably by the styling, with wide contrast stripes along
the boot-top, under the gunwales, and around the coachroof,
where the painted stripe continues the line of the tinted
windows.
The first boats built were fin-keeled, but later lift keel
and bilge-keelers were also built. About 300 boats in total
were built, the design continuing in production from 1973
to 1990.
The bilge-keeled boats retain part of the stub keel of the
fin keel version: on early bilge-keelers this still has the
flat base onto which the fin would have been bolted, but later
the moulds were altered to make the central vestigial keel
more rounded.
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