Swan 42

The Swan 42 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1980.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1980 to 1985, with 38 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design


The boat was based on the 1979 Admiral's Cup design, Regardless, the only boat to win two races in that regatta. It uses a deck and interior derived from the Swan 441 and Swan 44.

The Swan 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a keel-stepped mast, two sets of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with 1X19 stainless steel wire rigging. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional shoal-draft keel. It displaces 22000 lb and carries 9200 lb of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of 7.80 ft with the standard keel and 5.92 ft with the optional shoal draft keel.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 diesel engine of 40 hp for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 42 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 79 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for nine people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin along with two pilot berths and an aft cabin with a double berth on the starboard side and a single berth to port. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located aft of the companionway on the starboard.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 1647 sqft.

The design has a hull speed of 7.79 kn and a PHRF handicap of 78-87 with the fin keel and 87 with the shoal draft keel.