Nacra 500 Sport
Sailboat
16′ 5″
Catamaran
Since 1998
Overview
- Builder
- Nacra
- Model
- 500 Sport
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Catamaran
- Built
- 1998 on
- Designer
- Performance Catamarans
- Hull material
- Hull and deck: GRP (glass reinforced polyester)
- Rig
- Sloop Marconi fractional
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 16′ 5″ (5.00 m)
- Beam
- 8′ (2.44 m)
- Displacement
- 328 lb (149 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- No engine
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 192 sq ft (17.8 m²)
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 64.6
- Capsize screening
- 4.64
Power from the sails for the boat's weight. Under 16 is modest, 16–20 a typical cruiser, over 20 lively.
Under 2 is generally considered better for offshore use.
More details
- Appendages
- Skegs : skeg on each hull
- Asymmetric spinnaker area
- 183 ft²
- Cockpit
- No cockpit
- Construction
- Hull and deck: GRP (glass reinforced polyester)
- Country
- United States
- Crew
- 2
- EC design category
- C
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Jib area
- 40 ft²
- Mast configuration
- Fore beam stepped mast
- Number of levels of spreaders
- 1
- Rigging type
- Sloop Marconi fractional
- Rotating spars
- Yes
- Rudder
- Twin transom hung rudders
- Spars construction
- Aluminum mast and no boom
- Spreaders angle
- Swept-back (diamond)
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- About 13 600 € (2020)
- Standing rigging
- 1x19 strand wire continuous
- Trailerable
- Yes
- Trapezes
- 2 set(s)
- Unsinkable
- No
- Version
- Sport
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.