Review of Defender 35
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 Defender 35 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.
Fin keel
The Defender 35 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 keel is made of lead. Compared with iron, lead has the advantage of being 44% heavier, which allows a smaller keel and hence less water resistance and higher speed.
The boat can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.68 - 1.78 meter (5.51 - 5.81 ft) dependent on the load.
The boat may be equipped with an inboard Volvo Penta diesel engine
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
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Maintenance
Dimensions of sail for masthead rig.
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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.
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
| Mainsail halyard | 29.8 m | (97.8 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
| Jib/genoa halyard | 29.8 m | (97.8 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
| Spinnaker halyard | 29.8 m | (97.8 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
| Cunningham | 3.1 m | (10.3 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
| Kickingstrap | 6.3 m | (20.7 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
| Clew-outhaul | 6.3 m | (20.7 feet) | 6 mm | (1/4 inch) |
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