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Review of Furia 44-J


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Furia 44-J is a large sailboat designed by the French maritime architect Michel Joubert together with Bernard Nivelt also from France in the late eighties. The Furia 44-J is built by the Spanish yard Furia Yachts S.A..

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Rig

The Furia 44-J is equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.


Keel
Keel
Keel of Furia 44-J anno 1992. Furia 44 J

Fin keel

The Furia 44-J is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.

The boat can only enter major marinas as the draft is about 2.39 - 2.49 meter (7.84 - 8.14 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.


Engine

The boat may be equipped with an inboard engine

The transmission is a shaft drive. A shaft drive will in the long run require less maintenance than other types of drive e.g. a sail drive.


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.

Stability and Safety

What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?

The capsize screening value for Furia 44-J is 1.90, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.


Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Furia 44-J is about 378 kg/cm, alternatively 2118 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 378 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 2118 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.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Furia 44-J is 3.25.

Slim Wide 66% 0 50 100
Compared with other similar sailboats it is more spacy than 66% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a slightly more spacy hull design.


SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)

What is SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)?

The SA/D for Furia 44-J with ISO 8666 reference sail is 16.7, with a 135% genua the SA/D is 20.0.

Low High 27% 0 50 100
The SA/D ratio indicates that it is faster than 27% of all similar sailboat designs in light wind.


Maintenance

Rig

Dimensions of sail for masthead rig.

mainsail specifications headsail specifications

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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
UsageLengthDiameter
Mainsail halyard 39.8 m(130.6 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)
Jib/genoa halyard39.8 m(130.6 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)
Spinnaker halyard39.8 m(130.6 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)
Jib sheet 13.5 m(44.4 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Genoa sheet13.5 m(44.4 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Mainsheet 33.8 m(111.1 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet29.8 m(97.7 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Cunningham4.5 m(14.8 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)
Kickingstrap9.0 m(29.5 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)
Clew-outhaul9.0 m(29.5 feet)14 mm(0.55 inch)

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