Review of Dartsailer 30
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 interior is like few other boats made in oak. Oak belongs to the hardwood species, known for being water-repellent and resistant to decay. It has an attractive wood grain and polishes well.
The boat is equipped with 3 cabins, 7 berths, a galley and toilet facility.
Note: the boat has also been sold to be self-made/-interiored, which means that the quality of each boat may vary.
The Dartsailer 30 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.
Full keel
The Dartsailer 30 is equipped with a long keel. A full keel provide a better directional stability than a similar boat with a fin keel; on the other hand, better directional stability means also that the boat is more difficult to handle in a harbour with less space.
Dartsailer 30 can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 1.25 - 1.35 meter (4.10 - 4.40 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.
The boat may be equipped with an inboard Perkins diesel engine at 47 hp (35 kW).
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 Dartsailer 30 is 1.63, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level.
The immersion rate for Dartsailer 30 is about 190 kg/cm, alternatively 1064 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 190 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm.
Alternatively, if you load 1064 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 L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
The l/b ratio for Dartsailer 30 is 2.95.
The ballast ratio for Dartsailer 30 is 29%.
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): 12.23
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 | 9.2 m | (30.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 9.2 m | (30.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 22.9 m | (75.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 20.1 m | (66.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
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