Swan 76

The Swan 76 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1979.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1979 to 1981, with five boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Swan 76 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead ketch 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 centreboard. It was produced in both flush deck and deckhouse arrangements.

The boat is fitted with a German Mercedes-Benz OM 402 diesel engine of 200 hp for docking and manoeuvring.

For sailing downwind the boat may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 4350 sqft. The design has a hull speed of 10.49 kn.

Variants

 * Swan 76
 * This fixed keel, flush deck, maxi yacht racing model displaces 98700 lb and carries 24000 lb of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of 12.00 ft with the standard fin keel. The fuel tank holds 555 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 1004 u.s.gal.


 * Swan 76 DH
 * This centreboard, deck house cruising model displaces 105500 lb and carries 29800 lb of ballast. The boat has a draft of 12.00 ft with the centreboard down and 7.60 ft with it retracted. The fuel tank holds 608 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 1056 u.s.gal.