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Review of Grand Soleil 46


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Grand Soleil 46 is a large sailboat designed by the maritime architect Alain Jézéquel in the mid eighties. The Grand Soleil 46 is built by the Italian yard Cantiere del Pardo S.p.A..

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.


Keel

Fin keel

The Grand Soleil 46 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 2.00 - 2.10 meter (6.56 - 6.86 ft) dependent on 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.

Ballast Ratio

What is a Ballast Ratio?

The ballast ratio for Grand Soleil 46 is 28%.

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This ballast ratio shows a righting moment that is higher than 15% of all similar sailboat designs. A righting moment (ability to resist heeling) significantly below average.


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
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 14.0 m(45.9 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Genoa sheet 14.0 m(45.9 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Mainsheet 35.0 m(114.7 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet30.8 m(101.0 feet)16 mm(5/8 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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