Swan 651

The Swan 651 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a blue water cruiser-racer and first built in 1982.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, frlom 1982 until 1991 with 19 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Swan 651 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel and retractable centreboard. It displaces 75500 lb and carries 31700 lb of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of 11.50 ft with the standard keel and is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of 120 hp for docking and manoeuvring.

The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with two bunk beds in each of two forward cabins, a U-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a central, double island berth. The galley is located on the port side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a four-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are three heads, one for each cabin.

The design has a hull speed of 9.94 kn and a PHRF handicap of 6 to -12 for the fin keel version and -6 for the centreboard model.