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Review of Clansman 30

Basic specs..

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

The Clansman 30 is equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

The Clansman 30 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 1.35 - 1.45 meter (4.43 - 4.73 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?

The capsize screening value for Clansman 30 is 1.54, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.

What is Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed?

The theoretical maximal speed of a displacement boat of this length is 6.2 knots. The term "Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed" is widely used even though a boat can sail faster. The term shall be interpreted as above the theoretical speed a great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed.

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Clansman 30 is about 107 kg/cm, alternatively 599 lbs/inch. Meaning: if you load 107 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 599 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.

Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

What is Motion Comfort Ratio (MCR)?

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

What is a Ballast Ratio?

What is Displacement Length Ratio?

SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio) Indicates how fast the boat is in light wind: - Cruising Boats have ratios 10-15 - Cruiser-Racers have ratios 16-20 - Racers have ratios above 20 - High-Performance Racers have ratios above 24 Sail-area/displacement ratio (SA/D ratio): 13.85

Maintenance

When buying anti-fouling bottom paint, it's nice to know how much to buy. The surface of the wet bottom is about 19m 2 (204 ft 2 ). Based on this, your favourite maritime shop can tell you the quantity you need.

If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.


Usage	Length		Diameter
Jib sheet	9.1 m	(30.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Genoa sheet	9.1 m	(30.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Mainsheet	22.9 m	(75.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Spinnaker sheet	20.1 m	(66.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)

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09-01-2012, 19:15
	29 in 1981 and cruised her for 2 1/2 years from Jervis Bay up the to Lizard Is and then onto PNG (Louisiades) & througout the Solomon Islands. Some people are surprised we went so far in such a & we could have gone further but careers called us back. We always felt safe in her and the was good for 2 people with occasional friends. Unbelievably we her for more than we spent all up! It was slow travelling now that we have a 425 to compare it to. Good luck with the Clansman though - they were on our at the time but we wanted to fit out a to avoid maintainence issues. cheers DMGF

09-01-2012, 22:49
Boat: Phantom 32 fin keel and skeg sloop	28, 29 and Clansman years ago when I was in the market for such. The Clansman was the most appealing, followed by the Compass 28. Details are a bit vague now, but I well remember the conclusion. I also remember the Clansman was more expensive than the Compass. The Compass 29 had a fairly bad rep, mainly due to the excessive . Rumour was thats why a was preferred over the tiller.

10-01-2012, 08:21
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)

16-02-2012, 00:27
	> Cairns > PNG including Rabaul in New Britain and Kavieng in New , then back to Adelaide. Sailed SA waters extensively, often handed for next 5 years, then when the 'nightmare' of marriage, career, , mortgage happened. Fellow cruisers at the time were amazed that we were in open waters in such a , but I can honestly say that she was the most sea-worthy, sea-kindly (heavy for size, narrow beam, low freeboard, long keel) of the I have sailed around that 30-34' range. She coped with some challenging conditions on that trip. Very fond memories flood back whenever I see one. If anyone knows where she is now - was called Tiarnie - I'd love to know. We lived on her for a whole year (mostly 3, long trip back to SA 2). So, to the person who originally asked, if you find one in good condition, seriously think of taking it for a sea trial. Just to spoil the story, I'm waiting for a new 355 to arrive from US in March - so much NOT like a Clansman! However, my girlfriend who dared jump on the Clansman all those years ago is now the wife who was convinced to go to sea again after inspecting one of these flash in recently.

16-02-2012, 02:43
Boat: Catalina Morgan 45	.

16-02-2012, 05:33
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)

12-01-2017, 17:43
	? many thanks, Mat

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