Swan 37

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|image boat = Swan37 013 AlvineXV GBR2881 2011 Euros2.jpg

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|image caption = Swan 37 No.013 AlvineXV GBR2881 at the 2011 Swan Europeans in Cowes (GBR) held by the Royal Yacht Squadron

|designer = Sparkman & Stephens

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|year = 1970 - 1975

|no built = 59

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|brand = Swan

|builder = Nautor Swan

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|draft = {{convert|6.4|ft|m|2|abbr=off}}

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|construction = GRP

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|lwl = {{convert|27|ft|4|in|abbr=on}}

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|appendages = Fin keel with skeg hung rudder

|keel type = fin

|ballast = {{convert|7300|lb|kg|abbr=on}}

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|rig type = Masthead Sloop

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|previous = Swan 36

|successor = Swan 38 (yacht)

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File:Trishna on the high seas.jpg

Swan 37 is a GRP constructed, fin keeled, one tonner masthead sloop and successor to the Swan 36. It was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and manufactured by Nautor Oy between 1970 and 1974 with total of 59 boats being built.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicswan.org/swan_37.php|title=S&S Swan Association|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://sparkmanstephens.blogspot.fi/2011/02/design-2035-swan-37palmer-johnson-37.html|title=Sparkman & Stephens: Design 2035 - Swan 37'/Palmer Johnson 37'|publisher=}} Sparkman & Stephens designed the Americas Cup winner Intrepid (1967 and 1970) with a trim tab on the trailing edge of the keel. S&S used the same trim tab on at least some of the early Swan 37s. Measured by racing success, Swan 37 is one of the most successful Swan yachts ever built and it is famous for winning the Round Gotland Race on six occasions in four decades by a yacht called Tarantella II.{{cite web|url=http://www.tarantella.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=81|title=Tarantella II Swan 37 Fin-107 - The Past|first=Henrik|last=R-S|work=tarantella.fi|accessdate=14 July 2016}} At least two Swan 37 boats Dulcinea and Trishna are known to have circumnavigated the world.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=757&dat=19760510&id=b81OAAAAIBAJ&pg=6146,1226247&hl=fi|title=The Virgin Islands Daily News - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|accessdate=14 July 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/DelhiRecorderMar1985/Delhi%20Recorder_Mar%201985#page/n0/mode/2up|title=Delhi Recorder Mar 1985|work=archive.org|accessdate=14 July 2016}} As part of that circumnavigation, Dulcinea participated in the Cape to Rio race in 1976. She is still actively sailed under the same name (as of 2017) in the US. In the US market Swan 37 was also marketed as Palmer Johnson 37.{{cite web|url=http://www.nautorswan.com/en/company/heritage/1966-1975|title=1966 - 1975 < Heritage < Company < Nautor's Swan|work=nautorswan.com|accessdate=14 July 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=4537|title=PJ-37 sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com|work=sailboatdata.com|accessdate=14 July 2016}}

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