Swan 42

{{Short description|Sailboat class}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2023}}

{{Infobox sailboat specifications

|name = Swan 42

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|designer = Ron Holland

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|location = Finland

|year = 1980

|no built = 38

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|builder = Oy Nautor AB

|role = Cruiser-Racer

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|draft = {{convert|7.80|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|displacement = {{convert|22000|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}

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|hull type = monohull

|construction = glassfibre

|loa = {{convert|42.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|lwl = {{convert|33.83|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|beam = {{convert|12.96|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|engine = Perkins Engines 4-108 {{convert|40|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} diesel engine

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|keel type = fin keel

|ballast = {{convert|9200|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}

|rudder type = Spade-type rudder

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|rig type = Bermuda rig

|I = {{convert|54.90|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|J = {{convert|16.70|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|P = {{convert|48.80|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|E = {{convert|14.10|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|sailplan = Masthead sloop

|sailarea main = {{convert|343|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

|sailarea headsail = {{convert|686|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

|sailarea spin = {{convert|1647|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

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|phrf = 78-87

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The Swan 42 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1980.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-42/|title= Swan 42|access-date= 21 April 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421234742/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-42/|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-42|title= Swan 42|access-date= 21 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421234804/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-42|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7242/0/|title= Swan 42|access-date= 21 April 2023|author= Ulladulla|work= Sailboat Lab|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421234842/https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7242/0/|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/nautor-s-swan/swan-42-standard|title = Swan 42 Standard Sailboat specifications|access-date = 21 April 2023|work = Boat-Specs.com|year=2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421234937/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/nautor-s-swan/swan-42-standard|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url = https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/nautor-s-swan/swan-42-shoal-draft|title = Swan 42 Shoal draft Sailboat specifications|access-date = 21 April 2023|work = Boat-Specs.com|year=2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421234917/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/nautor-s-swan/swan-42-shoal-draft|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/holland-ron|title= Ron Holland|access-date = 21 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= 21 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}}{{cite web|url = https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/designers/ron-holland-design|title = Ron Holland Design Sailboat designer|access-date = 21 April 2023|work = Boat-Specs.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230421235605/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/designers/ron-holland-design|archive-date= 21 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite book |title=The Spirit of Swan |publisher=Yachting Library S.r.L |date=October 1, 2002 |pages=244 Onwards |chapter=The Boats |isbn=88-87737-18-5}}

Production

The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1980 to 1985, with 38 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|title = Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date = 21 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= 21 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}}{{cite web|url = https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/builders/nautor-s-swan|title = Nautor's Swan Sailboat builder|access-date = 21 April 2023|work = Boat-Specs.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230406231235/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/builders/nautor-s-swan|archive-date= 6 April 2023|url-status= live}}

Design

File:Swan 42 Designed by Ron Holland.jpg]]

The boat was based on the 1979 Admiral's Cup design, Regardless, the only boat to win two races in that regatta. It uses a deck and interior derived from the Swan 441 and Swan 44.{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4_Z9BWIYwYQC&pg=PA41|title= Nautor News|access-date= 21 April 2023|author= Nautor|author-link= Nautor's Swan|work= Yachting|date= May 1980}}

The Swan 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a keel-stepped mast, two sets of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with 1X19 stainless steel wire rigging. The hull has 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|22000|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|9200|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of {{convert|7.80|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel and {{convert|5.92|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the optional shoal draft keel.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 diesel engine of {{convert|40|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds {{convert|42|u.s.gal}} and the fresh water tank has a capacity of {{convert|79|u.s.gal}}.

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 along with two pilot berths and an aft cabin with a double berth on the starboard side and a single berth to port. The galley is located on the port side just forward of 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 aft of the companionway on the starboard.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of {{convert|1647|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}.

The design has a hull speed of {{convert|7.79|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} and a PHRF handicap of 78-87 with the fin keel and 87 with the shoal draft keel.{{cite web|url= https://www.ussailing.org/competition/offshore/phrf/phrf-handicaps/|title= PHRF Handicaps|access-date= 21 April 2023|author= US Sailing|author-link= US Sailing|work= ussailing.org|year= 2023}}

See also

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