| Grand Surprise | |
| Image Boat: | File:37edhec GS 1.jpg |
| Image Caption: | Four Grand Surprise boats during the 37th Edhec's Regatta at Les Sables-d'Olonne |
| Designer: | Joubert Nivelt Design |
| Location: | France |
| Year: | 1999 |
| No Built: | 110 |
| Builder: | Archambault Boats |
| Role: | racer |
| Draft: | 6.73feet |
| Displacement: | 58420NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | fibreglass |
| Loa: | 31.3feet |
| Lwl: | 29.3feet |
| Beam: | 9.78feet |
| Engine: | Lombardini S.r.l. 14or diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 23150NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | internally-mounted spade-type rudder |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 40.29feet |
| J: | 11.19feet |
| P: | 43.14feet |
| E: | 14.76feet |
| Sailplan: | fractional rigged sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 357square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 245square feet |
| Sailarea Spin: | 1485square feet |
| Sailarea Gen: | 829square feet |
| Sailarea Upwind: | 603square feet |
| Sailarea Downwind: | 1843square feet |
The Grand Surprise is a French sailboat that was designed by Joubert Nivelt Design as a racer and first built in 1999.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The Grand Surprise followed the smaller 25.1feet Surprise, which entered production in 1977.[5] [6] [7]
The design was built by Archambault Boats of Dangé-Saint-Romain and also by the BG Race shipyard in Saint-Malo in France between 1999 and 2017, with 110 boats completed, but it is now out of production. Archambault, which had been founded in 1967, went out of business in 2015. The BG Race shipyard, founded in 2013, built many designs for Archambault and went out of business in 2017.[1] [2] [8] [9] [10]
The Grand Surprise is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. The hull is made from single skin polyester fibreglass, while the deck is a fibreglass polyester sandwich. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a keel-stepped mast, wire standing rigging and two sets of swept spreaders. The hull has a plumb stem, an open reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces 58420NaN0 and carries 23150NaN0 of ballast.[1] [2]
The boat has a draft of 6.73feet with the standard keel.[1] [2]
The boat is fitted with a Lombardini S.r.l. 14or diesel engine for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds .[1] [2]
The design has sleeping accommodation for four to six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two long straight settees in the main cabin. The galley is located on the port side just aft of the bow cabin. The is equipped with a single-burner stove and a sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located under the bow "V"-berth. The main cabin headroom is 650NaN0.[1] [2]
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 1485square feet or an asymmetrical spinnaker of 829square feet. It has a hull speed of 7.25kn.[2]