This design was conceived following several requests for a good all-round safe, economical, fast cruising yacht of 30 ft overall length. There were requests for a fixed keel boat and also a lift keel boat that could be trailed, and for this reason beam was kept below 9 ft 6 in to allow semi-permanent over width trailing permits. This produced a yacht with a moderate beam\/length ratio which guarantees very fast speed and easy handling reaching and downwind.<\/p>\n
Upwind performance and initial stability at rest is provided by the ballast being set very low in the lift keel version and firm bilges which gives the boat a great deal more stability than its ballast and displacement figures would suggest.<\/p>\n
The fixed keel version carries a higher ballast ratio with the lead still located low down in the shallower keel, and has similar stability to the lift keel version.<\/p>\n
This design will fill a great number of individual needs as well as being an excellent all purpose yacht, and is one that will develop well into a class or club racing yacht, providing exceptional interior accommodation per dollar spent, a stable, safe family yacht, as well as a very high performance potential for those people who see no reason for a cruising yacht not to be very fast and\/or wish to race their yacht in one-design or club races.<\/p>\n
Interest in this boat has resulted in two production designs of similar size and concept – Designs 99 and 112.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","yacht-type":[10,31,9],"design-type":[],"class_list":["post-4777","yacht","type-yacht","status-publish","hentry","yacht-type-length","yacht-type-list","yacht-type-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yacht\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yacht"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/yacht"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yacht-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yacht-type?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"design-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/farrdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/design-type?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}