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Colvic Sailer 29 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Colvic Craft mouldings |
The Colvic Sailer
29 is a robust and spacious family cruiser, comparable in size to
a Westerly Konsort. As the hulls were fitted out by many different companies and individuals, fitout quality and hence prices can vary greatly. |
LOA |
29' 6" |
Sail area |
452 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
24' 0" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
10' 6" |
Cabins |
saloon and forecabin |
Draught |
4' 9" fin or 4' 0" bilge keel |
Berths |
up to 6 |
Displacement |
approx 10,000 lbs |
Engine |
various |
Ballast |
approx 4,500 lbs |
BHP |
typically 18 - 25 |
Keel type |
Fin keel or bilge keels with encapsulated ballast and skeg-hung
rudder |
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Designed by David Feltham in 1976, who also
designed the Mirage, Cobra and Seawolf ranges of yachts, the
Colvic Sailer 29 is a high-volume family cruiser. The hulls
and decks were moulded by Colvic Craft in Essex, and generally
supplied with internal structural bulkheads and engines in
place, for completion by the purchasers.
The boats were built in fin and bilge keel versions, both
with keels moulded as an integral part of the hull, and encapsulated
ballast. As with the Colvic 26, the bilge keels are made near vertical for ease of moulding, but are deep enough to give adequate cruising performance. The rudders are skeg-hung. The original designers drawings showed six berths, with a two-berth forecabin, and a convertible double and single in the saloon, plus two pilot berths outboard, using the quite considerable beam.
Many Colvic hulls were bought by professional boatyards, and fitted out for sale under their own name - for example the Colvic Sailer 29 was sold as the Velocity 30 by Aberdour Marine. Others were home completed, the standard of this work varying from truly awful to very good indeed - the yacht illustrated here, although having an unusual internal layout, being one of the really good examples of a home completed boat, with better joinery detailing than in many factory-built boats.
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