Review of Viksund 31 Goldfish
Basic specs.
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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.
The interior is like most other boats made of teak. Teak has the advantage of being naturally very oily and therefore water-repellent, which is suitable on boats.
The boat is equipped with 3 cabins, 8 berths, a galley, 200.0 liter fresh water capacity, toilet facility and 60.0 liter waste water capacity.
The Viksund 31 Goldfish is equipped with a ketch rig. A ketch rig is generally considered easier to handle, because the sails are smaller, and because it can sail on most points to the wind with one sail completely taken down for repair or while reefing. The sail configuration of a ketch allows for better comfort and stability when sailing downwind or on a broad reach.
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.
What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?
The capsize screening value for Viksund 31 Goldfish is 1.73, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level.
The immersion rate for Viksund 31 Goldfish is about 202 kg/cm, alternatively 1134 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 202 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm.
Alternatively, if you load 1134 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.
What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
The l/b ratio for Viksund 31 Goldfish is 2.95.
Maintenance
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.
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
| Jib sheet | 9.4 m | (31.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 9.4 m | (31.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 23.6 m | (77.5 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 20.8 m | (68.2 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
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