Review of Trotter-Pandora

Basic specs.

The Trotter-Pandora aka Pandora is a small sailboat designed by the Dutch maritime architect E. G. Van de Stadt in the late sixties. A few hundred boats have been produced. The Trotter-Pandora is built by Grimsby Plastics.

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Rig

The Trotter-Pandora 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.

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.

Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Trotter-Pandora is about 93 kg/cm, alternatively 526 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 93 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 526 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 Trotter-Pandora is 3.18.

Compared with other similar sailboats it is slimmer than 86% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more speedy hull design.

Maintenance

Rig

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**
Usage	Length		Diameter
Jib sheet	6.7 m	(21.9 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Genoa sheet	6.7 m	(21.9 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Mainsheet	16.7 m	(54.8 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet	14.7 m	(48.2 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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Finally

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References

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