RS Sailing RS 800
Sailboat
15′ 8″
Monohull
Since 2001
Overview
- Builder
- RS Sailing
- Model
- RS 800
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Monohull
- Built
- 2001 on
- Designer
- Phil Morrisson
- Hull material
- Fiberglass reinforced epoxy: Sandwich PVC fiberglass epoxy
- Rig
- Sloop Marconi fractional
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 15′ 8″ (4.78 m)
- Beam
- 9′ 6″ (2.90 m)
- Draft
- 3′ 10″ (1.17 m)
- Displacement
- 243 lb (110 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- No engine
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 180 sq ft (16.7 m²)
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 74.0
- Capsize screening
- 6.09
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
- Centerboard : daggerboard
- Asymmetric spinnaker area
- 226 ft²
- Cockpit
- Aft cockpit with racks
- Construction
- Fiberglass reinforced epoxy: Sandwich PVC fiberglass epoxy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Crew
- 2 (> 151 kg)
- D-PN rating
- 77.0
- EC design category
- D
- Genoa area
- 53 ft²
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Mast configuration
- Deck stepped mast
- Number of levels of spreaders
- 2
- PY (Portsmouth Yardstick) rating
- 820
- Rigging type
- Sloop Marconi fractional
- Rotating spars
- No
- Rudder
- Single transom hung rudder
- Spars construction
- Carbon fiber mast and aluminum boom
- Spreaders angle
- Swept-back
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- About 14 400 € (2020)
- Trailerable
- Yes
- Trapezes
- 2 set(s)
- Unsinkable
- No
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.