Swan 391
{{Short description|Sailboat class}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox sailboat specifications
|name = Swan 391
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|image boat = File:Swan391 FRA9210 Delnic 2013 Euros.jpg
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|designer = Ron Holland
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|location = Finland
|year = 1981
|no built = 52
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|builder = Oy Nautor AB
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|draft = {{convert|7.20|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|displacement = {{convert|18900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = monohull
|construction = glassfibre
|loa = {{convert|39.92|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|lwl = {{convert|33.08|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|beam = {{convert|12.42|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|engine = Perkins Engines diesel engine
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|keel type = fin keel
|ballast = {{convert|6800|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
|rudder type = Spade-type rudder
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|rig type = Bermuda rig
|I = {{convert|53.50|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|J = {{convert|16.30|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|P = {{convert|47.30|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|E = {{convert|14.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|sailplan = Masthead sloop
|sailarea main = {{convert|331.10|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
|sailarea headsail = {{convert|436.03|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
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|sailarea total = {{convert|767.13|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
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|phrf = 81-96
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|previous = Swan 39
|successor = Swan 40 Frers
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The Swan 391 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1981.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-391/|title= Swan 391|access-date= 19 April 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230419214648/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-391/|archive-date= 19 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-391|title= Swan 391|access-date= 19 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230419214709/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-391|archive-date= 19 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7237/0/|title= Swan 391|access-date= 19 April 2023|author= Ulladulla|work= Sailboat Lab|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230419215120/https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7237/0/|archive-date= 19 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/holland-ron|title= Ron Holland|access-date = 19 April 2023|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20211110154011/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/holland-ron|archive-date= 10 November 2021|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/ron-holland|title= Ron Holland|access-date= 19 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220909133435/https://sailboat.guide/ron-holland|archive-date= 9 September 2022|url-status= live}}
Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1981 to 1987, with 52 boats built, but it is now out of production.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|title = Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date = 19 April 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= 19 April 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}}
Design
File:Swan391 Delnic FRA9210 2011 Euros.jpg]]
The Swan 391 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional shoal-draft keel. It displaces {{convert|18900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|6800|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of ballast.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|7.20|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel and {{convert|5.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the optional shoal draft keel.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of for docking and manoeuvring.
The design has sleeping accommodation for nine people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin, plus two upper pilot berths and two aft cabins, one to port with a double berth and one to starboard with a single. The galley is located on the port side abeam the companionway ladder. The galley is L-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. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.
The design has a hull speed of {{convert|7.71|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} and a PHRF handicap of 81 to 96 for the fin keel version and 102 for the shoal draft version.{{cite web|url= https://www.ussailing.org/competition/offshore/phrf/phrf-handicaps/|title= PHRF Handicaps|access-date= 19 April 2023|author= US Sailing|author-link= US Sailing|work= ussailing.org|year= 2023}}
Operational history
Sailboat Lab describes the boat, "the Swan 391 is a moderate weight sailboat which is a reasonably good performer. It is stable / stiff and has a good righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a coastal cruiser."
In the 1990 Rolex Swan Atlantic Regatta, a Swan 391, named Full Cry and sailed by Robert Compton, won the Rolex Swan Atlantic Challenge for overall points and also lowest corrected time with an IMS handicap.{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HJTzSKU-PygC&pg=PA35|title= Swans Aweigh|access-date= 19 April 2023|last= Gosselin|first= Lisa|work= Yachting|date= February 1991}}
See also
References
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External links
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{{Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan}}
Category:1980s sailboat type designs