RS Sailing RS Venture SE
Sailboat
16′ 4″
Monohull
Since 2010
Overview
- Builder
- RS Sailing
- Model
- RS Venture SE
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Monohull
- Built
- 2010 on
- Designer
- Phil Morrisson
- Hull material
- GRP (glass reinforced polyester): Sandwich foam fiberglass p
- Rig
- Sloop Marconi fractional
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 16′ 4″ (4.98 m)
- Beam
- 6′ 8″ (2.03 m)
- Draft
- 3′ 10″ (1.17 m)
- Displacement
- 661 lb (300 kg)
- Ballast
- 132 lb (60 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- Outboard engine
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 159 sq ft (14.8 m²)
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 33.5
- Ballast ratio
- 20%
- Capsize screening
- 3.06
Power from the sails for the boat's weight. Under 16 is modest, 16–20 a typical cruiser, over 20 lively.
Share of the weight that is ballast. Higher generally means stiffer in a breeze.
Under 2 is generally considered better for offshore use.
More details
- Appendages
- Centerboard : pivoting centerboard
- Asymmetric spinnaker area
- 151 ft²
- Ballast ratio
- 20 %
- Ballast type
- Cast iron
- Cockpit
- Closed aft cockpit
- Construction
- GRP (glass reinforced polyester): Sandwich foam fiberglass polyester
- Country
- United Kingdom
- EC design category
- C
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Jib area
- 41 ft²
- Mast configuration
- Deck stepped mast
- Number of levels of spreaders
- 1
- Rigging type
- Sloop Marconi fractional
- Rotating spars
- No
- Rudder
- Single transom hung rudder
- Spars construction
- Aluminum spars
- Spreaders angle
- Swept-back
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- About 11 600 € (2020)
- Standing rigging
- 1x19 strand wire continuous
- Trailerable
- Yes
- Unsinkable
- No
- Version
- SE
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.