Rob Roy 23
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|designer = Edward S. Brewer
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|year = 1980
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The Rob Roy 23 is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Edward S. Brewer and first built in 1980. The design is out of production.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/rob-roy-23|title = Rob Roy 23 sailboat specifications and details|access-date = 3 December 2016|last= McArthur| first = Bruce|work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2021|archive-url= https://archive.today/20211119141634/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/rob-roy-23|archive-date= 19 November 2021|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = http://www.sailingjoy.com/sailboat_specs/sailboat_specs/view/3916/rob-roy-23|title = Sailboat Specifications for Rob Roy 23 |access-date = 3 December 2016|work = Sailing Joy|author= InterVisionSoft LLC|year = 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161220044558/http://www.sailingjoy.com/sailboat_specs/sailboat_specs/view/3916/rob-roy-23|archive-date= 20 December 2016|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/designer/brewer-edward-s|title = Edward S. Brewer |access-date = 3 December 2016|last= McArthur| first = Bruce|work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2021|archive-url= https://archive.today/20210902203750/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/brewer-edward-s|archive-date= 2 September 2021|url-status= live}}Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, page 246. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-07-163652-0}}
Production
The boat was built by Marine Concepts in Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States. The design is a cabin version of the Sun Seeker 23 daysailer, which was also built by Marine Concepts.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/marine-concepts-usa|title = Marine Concepts (USA)|access-date = 19 November 2021|last= McArthur| first = Bruce|work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2021|archive-url= https://archive.today/20211119142334/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/marine-concepts-usa|archive-date= 19 November 2021|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/sun-seeker-23|title = Sun Seeker 23 sailboat specifications and details|access-date = 3 December 2016|last= McArthur| first = Bruce|work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2021|archive-url= https://archive.today/20211119141639/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/sun-seeker-23|archive-date= 19 November 2021|url-status= live}}
Design
File:Rob Roy 23 yawl Chasse Maree 0624.jpg
The Rob Roy 23 is a small recreational centerboard sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It is a fractional Gunter rigged yawl and has an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and an L-shaped centerboard keel. It displaces {{convert|2800|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of ballast.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|4.67|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard down and {{convert|1.50|ft|m|abbr=on}} with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.
The boat is normally fitted with a small {{convert|3|to|6|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} well-mounted outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds {{convert|12|u.s.gal}} and the fresh water tank has a capacity of {{convert|14|u.s.gal}}.
The design has sleeping accommodation for two or three people, depending on layout. It has two straight settee berths in the main cabin and the option of a third berth angled in the bow. The galley is located on both sides in the bow. The galley equipped with a two-burner stove to port and a sink to starboard. The head in the forward part of the bow. Cabin headroom is {{convert|48|in|cm|0|abbr=on}}.
The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 201 and a hull speed of {{convert|6.1|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}.
Operational history
File:Rob Roy 23 yawl Chasse Maree 2778.jpg
In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "there's nothing like a yawl rig to give character to a small sailboat. Add a canoe stern, comfortable accommodations for two (or three if you opt for a single berth forward
squeezed in next to the head), reasonably good construction and finishing, and you have the makings of a classic small yacht. Ted Brewer, whose life has been spent designing comfortable cruising boats, has succeeded here in his efforts to create just such a boat; and Marine Concepts, which left the business in 2006, did a good job of building her. Rob Roy had a relatively long production run, from 1983 to 2000, with a hiatus from 1994 to 1997. Best features: She's a salty-looking boat, with practical features such as a tabernacle for the main mast, an unstayed mizzen, an L-shaped centerboard that frees up cabin space by keeping the board trunk small and out of the way, and an in-cockpit engine well. And of course, as a yawl she has the advantage of easily shortening sail when it comes on to blow. Worst features: She is not very fast or weatherly versus her comp[etitor]s, partly a result of her divided rig and oddly shaped centerboard, though she does fine on a reach."
See also
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Category:1980s sailboat type designs