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Documented; 12 years salt water; 36 years fresh water; solid, excellent sailing, French-built boat.
Wind Dancer spent her first nine years sailing on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway. The next 12 years she sailed out of City Island, New York City; on Long Island Sound; Down East to Block Island, Marthas Vineyard, Cape Cod, Boston and Maine. She returned to Lake Ontario in 1996 and cruised to the many ports around the lake, down the St. Lawrence, canalling to Lake Champlain, and back to Ontario by canals. I have solo sailed her on the ocean and the lake but mostly with one to five crew members.
Accommodations: Sleeps six: two in V-berth, two on port and single on starboard in main cabin, and the starboard quarter berth. Dining table, chart table with storage, head, hanging closets and shelves, bookshelves, galley with propane stove, two ice chests, sink, counter, cupboards. Dufour plates, glasses, silverware, cooking utensils. Holding tank :14 gallons. Water:40 gallons, 20 port & stbd under main cabin settees. Reading lights over main cabin berths.
Sails: Main, 150 furling genoa (UV on leach replaced 2023), spinnaker.
Equipment: Three anchors (Danforth, Plow and Bruce), two new deep cycle Interstate batteries (2023), custom winter cover (2021), electric bilge pump, upgraded cowl ventilators, stainless tubing over ventilators, special boat hook, six person Avon Life Raft. Life jackets. New main and jib sheets, and topping lift. Jib cockpit winches, mainsheet winch, mast and boom winches.
Instruments: Depth finder, anemometer, Garmin 7 GPS, Garmin Handheld GPS, ship’s radio, handheld marine radio, CPT auto pilot. Knot meter, but not working, Fuel gauge, heat gauge, pedestal with compass and grab bar.
Other: New Bottom paint (2023) New heavy-duty boom 2023. The original boom was too lightweight and over the years, metal fatigue caused her to break in half while beating out of the St. Lawrence River. Charts & Guidebooks. Dock lines, cockpit cushions, nine fenders. Needs some touch up paint on topsides.
Wind Dancer is a two-owner boat. I purchased her in 1984 and at 95-years-of-age in 2023, I am slowing down. She is a lot of boat for the money.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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