ClubSwan 50
{{Short description|Sailboat class}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2023}}
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|designer = Juan Kouyoumdjian
Michele Bönan
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|location = Finland
|year = 2015
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|builder = Oy Nautor AB
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|crew = Eight
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|construction = carbon fibre with a foam core
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|engine = Volvo D2-40 {{convert|40|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} diesel engine
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|keel type = Fin keel
|ballast = {{convert|7605|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
|rudder type = Dual spade-type rudders
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The ClubSwan 50 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian as a one design and International Rating Certificate racer-cruiser, first built in 2015. The interior was designed by Michele Bönan.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/clubswan-50/|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165832/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/clubswan-50/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/clubswan-50|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165841/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/clubswan-50|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/1398/0/|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Ulladulla|work= Sailboat Lab|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165855/https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/1398/0/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kouyoumdjian-juan/|title = Juan Kouyoumdjian|access-date = 13 June 2023|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165834/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kouyoumdjian-juan/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/juan-kouyoumdjian|title= Juan Kouyoumdjian|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165851/https://sailboat.guide/juan-kouyoumdjian|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.nautorswan.com/yachts/models/clubswan50/|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Nautor|author-link= Nautor's Swan|work= nautorswan.com|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165859/https://www.nautorswan.com/yachts/models/clubswan50/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite magazine|url= https://www.yachtingworld.com/yachts-and-gear/nautors-swan-announces-an-exhilarating-new-clubswan-50-one-design-by-juan-k-for-its-50th-birthday-68106|title= Nautor's Swan announces an exhilarating new ClubSwan 50 one-design by Juan K for its 50th birthday|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Hodges|first= Toby|magazine= Yachting World|date= 1 October 2015|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165917/https://www.yachtingworld.com/yachts-and-gear/nautors-swan-announces-an-exhilarating-new-clubswan-50-one-design-by-juan-k-for-its-50th-birthday-68106|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{Excessive citations inline|date=February 2024}}
The boat was designed for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the manufacturer, Nautor's Swan, and was the result of a design competition the company held in 2015. The competition specified "a contemporary, fast, competitive one-design that could sail offshore and be converted to a sports cruiser sailed with limited crew." It also added, "in one word, this yacht has to be cool." The boat was also intended as a class to compete for the Nation's Cup.{{cite magazine|url= https://www.yachtingworld.com/boat-test/on-test-clubswan-50-95549|title= ClubSwan 50 on test: the most extreme production yacht we've ever seen|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Hodges|first= Toby|magazine= Yachting World|date= 14 October 2016|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165911/https://www.yachtingworld.com/boat-test/on-test-clubswan-50-95549|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.sailingworld.com/club-swan-50/|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Nautor's Swan|author-link= Nautor's Swan|work= Sailing World|date= 6 October 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220121145000/https://www.sailingworld.com/club-swan-50/|archive-date= 21 January 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite news|url= https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/boats/at-a-glance/clubswan-50/|title= ClubSwan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Bamford|first= Emma|work= Sailing Today|date= 27 November 2015|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613170008/https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/boats/at-a-glance/clubswan-50/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/10/30/clubswan-50-designed-by-juan-kouyoumidjian/|title= ClubSwan 50 designed by Juan Kouyoumidjian|access-date= 13 June 2023|work= Scuttlebutt Sailing News|date= 30 October 2015|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613170007/https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/10/30/clubswan-50-designed-by-juan-kouyoumidjian/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}
The design was Kouyoumdjian's first for Nautor and led to him designing other ClubSwan series racing boats, including the ClubSwan 36, 80 and the 125.
The ClubSwan 50 was accepted as a World Sailing international class in 2018.{{cite web|url= https://www.sailing.org/classes/clubswan-50/|title= WS50|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= World Sailing|author-link= World Sailing|work= sailing.org|year= 2018|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613170326/https://www.sailing.org/classes/clubswan-50/|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}
Production
The boat design was publicly announced on 6 October 2015 and has been built by Oy Nautor AB in a new plant in Kalby, Finland, since 2015. {{asof|2023}} it remained in production.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|title = Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date = 13 June 2023|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220407233954/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|archive-date= 7 April 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor|title= Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date= 13 June 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230406230707/https://sailboat.guide/nautor|archive-date= 6 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite magazine|url= https://www.yachtingworld.com/boat-test/video-we-test-nautors-swans-radical-and-classy-new-clubswan-50-92697|title= Video: We test the radical and classy new ClubSwan 50 from Nautor's Swan|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Hodges|first= Toby|magazine= Yachting World|date= 9 September 2016|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613170025/https://www.yachtingworld.com/boat-test/video-we-test-nautors-swans-radical-and-classy-new-clubswan-50-92697|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}
Design
The ClubSwan 50 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of pre-preg carbon fibre, with a foam core and a teak-faced deck. It has a fractional sloop rig with a fixed bowsprit and square-topped mainsail, a deck-stepped mast, three sets of swept spreaders and carbon fibre spars. The hull has hard chines, a negative sheer, a reverse dreadnought stem; an open transom; dual, internally mounted, sawtoothed, spade-type rudders controlled by dual wheels and a fixed, high modulus, carbon fibre fin keel with weighted bulb or an optional shoal-draft keel. It displaces {{convert|18188|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} empty and carries {{convert|7605|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|11.48|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel and {{convert|7.2|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the optional shoal draft keel.
The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo D2-40 diesel engine of {{convert|40|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds {{convert|45|u.s.gal}} and the fresh water tank has a capacity of {{convert|63|u.s.gal}}.
The design has standard sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double island berth in the bow cabin, two L-shaped settees in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a double berth on the port side. The galley is located on the starboard side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a sink. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on both sides and includes a shower. A third cabin with a double berth may be installed starboard aft, to provide a total of sleeping space for six people.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of {{convert|2530|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}. The boat has a hull speed of {{convert|9.08|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}.
Operational history
In a 2016 Sailing Magazine design review, naval architect Robert Perry wrote, "this is a very exciting looking design ... I like the look of the hull with the reverse sheerline ... I find the subtle reverse to the sheerline of the 50 to be quite attractive and racy looking. The bow profile is reversed also. I'm not sure I'd call it 'wave piercing' but that term is being used almost generically on any bow with a reverse to the profile ... Imagine cruising for the weekend in this boat with another couple. You’ll be chasing down boats to pass all weekend. I don’t think that ever gets old."{{cite web|url= https://sailingmagazine.net/article-1721-club-swan-50.html|title= Club Swan 50|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Perry|first= Robert H.|author-link= Robert Perry (yacht designer)|work= Sailing Magazine |date= 25 January 2016|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230613165932/https://sailingmagazine.net/article-1721-club-swan-50.html|archive-date= 13 June 2023|url-status= live}}
In a 2016 review, Peter Nielsen wrote, "Nautor's Swan turned to Argentine wunderkind Juan Kouyoumdjian for its latest one-design racer, and the result is a spectacular-looking boat. The ClubSwan 50 is right on the bleeding edge of design; the axe bow with its jutting carbon fiber prod combine with the low freeboard and reverse sheer to give it a take-no-prisoners look, while the generously flared stern sections, long hull chines and twin rudders promise high-speed planing under perfect control."{{cite web|url= https://www.sailmagazine.com/boats/new-boats-clubswan-50-gemini-freestyle-37-hanse-675new-arrivals-june-2016|title= New Boats: ClubSwan 50, Gemini Freestyle 37 & Hanse 675|access-date= 13 June 2023|last= Nielsen|first= Peter|work= Sail Magazine|date= 6 July 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220819224625/https://www.sailmagazine.com/boats/new-boats-clubswan-50-gemini-freestyle-37-hanse-675new-arrivals-june-2016|archive-date= 19 August 2022|url-status= live}}
In a 2016 Yachting World review during the first sail after the design's launch, Toby Hodges enthused, "the ClubSwan 50 is quite simply the most extreme-looking production yacht I’ve seen. No computer-enhanced renderings could do justice to seeing this yacht for the first time. She is fantastically awesome."
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.nautorswan.com/yachts/models/clubswan50/}}
{{Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan}}
{{Classes of World Sailing}}
Category:2010s sailboat type designs
Category:One-design sailing classes
Category:Classes of World Sailing