| Swan 51 | |
| Image Boat: | File:Belmont moored during Swan regatta 2021 (3).jpg |
| Designer: | Germán Frers |
| Location: | Finland |
| Year: | 1980 |
| No Built: | 36 |
| Builder: | Oy Nautor AB |
| Role: | Racer-Cruiser |
| Draft: | 8.9feet |
| Displacement: | 396000NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | glassfibre |
| Loa: | 51.25feet |
| Lwl: | 42.33feet |
| Beam: | 14.67feet |
| Engine: | Perkins Engines 730NaN0 diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | Fin keel |
| Ballast: | 165000NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | Spade-type rudder |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 69.5feet |
| J: | 20.9feet |
| P: | 62.7feet |
| E: | 18feet |
| Sailplan: | Masthead sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 564.3square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 726.28square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 1290.58square feet |
| Phrf: | 27-54 |
The Swan 51 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1980. It was the first Swan design by Frers and led to a long collaboration between Frers and the manufacturer.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1980 to 1985, with 36 boats completed, but it is now out of production.[1] [2] [3] [8] [9]
The Swan 51 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, three sets of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional keel and centreboard. It displaces 396000NaN0 and carries 165000NaN0 of lead ballast.[1] [2] [3] [10]
The boat has a draft of 8.9feet with the standard fin keel.[1] [2] [3]
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of 730NaN0 for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1] [2] [3]
The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double bunk beds in the forward cabin, a U-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin with a pilot berth above to port and an aft cabin with a double berth and a single berth. The galley is located on the port side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one in the bow cabin on the starboard side and one on the port side in the aft cabin.[1] [2] [3]
The design has a hull speed of 8.72kn and a PHRF handicap of 27 to 54 for the fin keel model and 42 to 54 for the centreboard version.[1] [2] [3] [10]
In 2013 boats.com named the design as one of the "6 of the best Nautor's Swan yachts of all-time".[7]