Jeanneau Flirt

The Jeanneau Flirt is a French trailerable sailboat that was designed by the Jeanneau Design Office, as a pocket cruiser and first built in 1976.

Production
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, from 1976 until 1984, with 1743 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Flirt is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of spreaders and aluminum spars with stainless steel wire rigging. The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or stub keel and centerboard.

The boat is fitted with either an optional inboard engine powering a saildrive or a small 6 to 8 hp outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a truncated double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settee berth in the main cabin. The galley is located in the starboard bow. The galley is equipped with a single-burner stove and an icebox. Cabin headroom is 52 in.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 242 sqft.

The design has a hull speed of 5.67 kn.

Variants

 * Flirt fin keel
 * This fixed keel model displaces 1764 lb and carries 573 lb of ballast. The boat has a draft of 3.28 ft with the standard fin keel.


 * Flirt keel and centerboard
 * This stub keel and centerboard model displaces 1653 lb and carries 441 lb of ballast. The boat has a draft of 4.10 ft with the centerboard down and 1.97 ft with it retracted.