Suspens

The Suspens (English: Suspense) is a French sailboat that was designed by Joubert Nivelt Design as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1979.

Production
The design was built by Archambault Boats of Dangé-Saint-Romain, France. The production run was eight years, from 1979 to 1987, with 63 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Suspens is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a keel-stepped mast, wire standing rigging and a single set of swept spreaders. The hull has a raked stem, a sharply reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 6118 lb and carries 1830 lb of cast iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of 5.91 ft with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a French Renault Couach diesel engine of 7 hp for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 7.9 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 31.7 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped and a straight settee in the main cabin around a drop leaf table and two aft quarter berths. The galley is located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a stainless steel sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the port side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 861 sqft. It has a hull speed of 6.78 kn.