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Review of Brio 22


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Brio 22 is a small sailboat. The Brio 22 is built by the French yard Jeanneau.

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Interior

The boat is equipped with 4 berths, a galley and toilet facility.


Rig

The Brio 22 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 Brio 22 is about 115 kg/cm, alternatively 647 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 115 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 647 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 Brio 22 is 2.76.

Slim Wide 66% 0 50 100
Compared with other similar sailboats it is more spacy than 66% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a slightly more spacy 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
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 6.9 m(22.6 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Genoa sheet6.9 m(22.6 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Mainsheet 17.2 m(56.6 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet15.2 m(49.8 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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Finally

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