Review of Arcona 430
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 boat is equipped with 6+2 berths and 300.0 liter fresh water capacity.
The Arcona 430 has been built with different keel alternatives.
Unknown keel type
Fin keel
The Arcona 430 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 2.28 - 2.38 meter (7.48 - 7.78 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.
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.
What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?
The capsize screening value for Arcona 430 is 1.92, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.
Arcona 430 holds a CE certification:
The boat is by European Union certified as Class A. OCEAN:What is Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed?
The theoretical maximal speed of a displacement boat of this length is 8.4 knots. The term "Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed" is widely used even though a boat can sail faster. The term shall be interpreted as above the theoretical speed a great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level.
The immersion rate for Arcona 430 is about 321 kg/cm, alternatively 1799 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 321 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm.
Alternatively, if you load 1799 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.
What is Motion Comfort Ratio (MCR)?
The Motion Comfort Ratio for Arcona 430 is 25.0.
What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
The l/b ratio for Arcona 430 is 3.30.
What is Displacement Length Ratio?
The DL-ratio for Arcona 430 is 146 which categorizes this boat among 'ultra light racers'.
SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)
Indicates how fast the boat is in light wind:
- Cruising Boats have ratios 10-15
- Cruiser-Racers have ratios 16-20
- Racers have ratios above 20
- High-Performance Racers have ratios above 24
Sail-area/displacement ratio (SA/D ratio): 25.47
Maintenance
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 | ||
| Jib sheet | 13.2 m | (43.1 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 13.2 m | (43.1 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 32.9 m | (107.9 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 28.9 m | (94.9 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
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