White Formula Whisper
Sailboat
17′ 8″
Catamaran
Since 2016
Overview
- Builder
- White Formula
- Model
- Whisper
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Catamaran
- Built
- 2016 on
- Designer
- Ron Price
- Hull material
- Carbon fiber reinforced epoxy: Sandwich carbon fiber epoxy
- Rig
- Sloop Marconi (square top mainsail) fractional
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 17′ 8″ (5.39 m)
- Beam
- 7′ 6″ (2.29 m)
- Displacement
- 231 lb (105 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- No engine
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 192 sq ft (17.8 m²)
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 81.6
- Capsize screening
- 4.89
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
- Foils : twin T-foils with aft sensor
- Asymmetric spinnaker area
- 165 ft²
- Award(s)
- 2016: SAIL magazine - Best Performance Boat under 30ft
- Cockpit
- No cockpit
- Construction
- Carbon fiber reinforced epoxy: Sandwich carbon fiber epoxy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Jib area
- 38 ft²
- Mast configuration
- Fore beam stepped mast
- Number of levels of spreaders
- 1
- Rigging type
- Sloop Marconi (square top mainsail) fractional
- Rotating spars
- Yes
- Rudder
- Twin rudders with T-foils
- Spars construction
- Carbon fiber spars
- Spreaders angle
- Swept-back
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- About 23 900 € (2020)
- Standing rigging
- 1x19 strand wire continuous
- Trailerable
- Yes
- Trapezes
- 2 set(s)
- Unsinkable
- No
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.