Review of Mirror-jolle

Basic specs.

The Mirror-jolle aka Mirror or Mirror Dinghy (Int) aka Mirror Dinghy (Int) is a sailing dinghy designed by the British maritime architect Jack Holt together with Barry Bucknell also from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the early sixties. Several thousand boats have been produced.

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Hull

The hull is made of plywood.
Some boats has a hull made of Fibreglass.

Interior

The boat is equipped with a galley.

Note: the boat has also been sold to be self-made/-interiored, which means that the quality of each boat may vary.

Keel

DaggerBoard aka Sword

The Mirror-jolle is equipped with a daggerboard keel. A daggerboard is a lifting keel that can be lowered and raised, allowing the boat to enter shallow waters as well.

Mirror-jolle can sail close to the beach as the draft is just 0.15 - 0.25 meter (0.49 - 0.79 ft) dependent of the load.

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.

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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 Mirror-jolle is 2.36.

Compared with other similar dinghies it is more spacy than 54% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a slightly more spacy hull design.

Maintenance

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.