| Capri Cyclone | |
| Class Image: | Cyclone13 ClassSymbol.svg |
| Designer: | Frank V. Butler |
| Location: | United States |
| Year: | 1970 |
| No Built: | 2400 |
| Builder: | Capri Yachts division of Catalina Yachts |
| Role: | Sailing dinghy |
| Crew: | one or two |
| Draft: | 2.83feet with the daggerboard down |
| Displacement: | 1450NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | Monohull |
| Construction: | Fiberglass |
| Loa: | 13feet |
| Beam: | 4.92feet |
| Keel Type: | daggerboard |
| Rudder Type: | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig Type: | stayed catboat rig |
| Sailplan: | catboat |
| Sailarea Main: | 74square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 74square feet |
| D-Pn: | 96.3 |
The Capri Cyclone, also referred to as the Cyclone 13 or just the Cyclone, is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Frank V. Butler as a one-design racer and first built in 1970.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The design was built by the Capri Yachts division of Catalina Yachts in the United States. A total of 2,400 boats were completed, but it is now out of production.[1] [3] [5]
The Capri Cyclone is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass with foam flotation. It has a stayed catboat rig with a short forestay, aluminum spars, a flexible mast and a loose-footed mainsail with mid-boom sheeting and a full cockpit width mainsheet traveler. The hull design features a spooned raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung fiberglass rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable fiberglass daggerboard. There is a forward compartment for stowage, closed by a hatch. The boat displaces 1450NaN0 and is capable of planing.[1] [3]
The design has a draft of 2.83feet with the daggerboard extended and 0.42feet with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.[1]
The design was initially equipped with a sail of 78square feet, but the class association approved a modification to shorten the mast and reduce the sail area by re-cutting it to 74square feet to improve both the performance of the boat and the handling. The manufacturer not only approved of the modification, but offered it free of charge.[1]
For sailing the design is equipped with a self-bailing cockpit, hiking straps, an outhaul, Cunningham and a boom vang. Factory options included a sail window, a kick-up rudder and a two-piece mast to ease ground transport.[3]
The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 96.3 and is normally raced by a crew of one or two sailors.[3]
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote that the Cyclone is "a planing dinghy with a bendy mast. There is an unusually short forestay. For ease of cartopping, the mast may be ordered in two pieces. Both the centerboard and the rudder are fiberglass. A beaching rudder is available as an option."[3]