Nonsuch 40
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|designer = Mark Ellis Design
|location = Taiwan
|year = 1988
|no built = 5
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|builder = Sen Koh Shipbuilding
Wiggers Custom Yachts
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The Nonsuch 40 is a Taiwanese sailboat, that was designed by Mark Ellis Design and first built in 1988.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/nonsuch-40|title = Nonsuch 40 sailboat specifications and details|accessdate = 14 August 2018|last= Browning| first = Randy |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2018|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220327201306/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/nonsuch-40|archive-date= 27 March 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url =https://sailboatdata.com/designer/ellis-mark|title = Mark Ellis|access-date = 1 June 2018|last= Browning| first = Randy |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2018|archive-url= https://archive.today/20210909203635/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/ellis-mark|archive-date= 9 September 2021|url-status= live}}
The Nonsuch 40 is a development of the Nonsuch 30, which was the first design in the Nonsuch series of sailboats.
Production
The design was built by Sen Koh Shipbuilding in Taiwan, with the boats completed and fitted-out by Wiggers Custom Yachts in Canada. A total of 5 examples of the design were completed before production ended. The design was marketed as the Journeyman 40 in the United Kingdom and as the Sequioa 40 in Canada.{{cite web|url =https://sailboatdata.com/builder/wiggers-custom-yachts-ltd|title = Wiggers Custom Yachts Ltd.|accessdate = 14 August 2018|last= Browning| first = Randy |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2018|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220327201307/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/wiggers-custom-yachts-ltd|archive-date= 27 March 2022|url-status= live}}
Design
The Nonsuch 40 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a cat rig, an unstayed mast with a wishbone boom, a plumb stem, a vertical transom, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces {{convert|26896|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|6.56|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel fitted.
The design has a hull speed of {{convert|8.48|kn|km/h|2|abbr=on}}.{{cite web|url =http://www.sailingjoy.com/sailboat_specs/sailboat_specs/view/5097/nonsuch-40 |title = Sailboat Specifications for Nonsuch 40 |accessdate = 14 August 2018|work = Sailing Joy|author= InterVisionSoft LLC|year = 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180814200949/http://www.sailingjoy.com/sailboat_specs/sailboat_specs/view/5097/nonsuch-40|archive-date= 14 August 2018|url-status= live}}