Review of Prout 38

Basic specs.

The Prout 38 is a catamaran designed by the maritime architect Robert Underwood together with David Feltham from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the late nineties.

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. A hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.

Interior

The boat is equipped with 340 liters (89 US gallons, 74 imperial gallons) fresh water capacity.

Rig

The Prout 38 is built with a cutter rig. A cutter rig breaks the yacht’s sail area down into smaller, easier to manage sails. Cutter rigs are often used for offshore sailing.

Keel

Bilge keel

The Prout 38 is built with a bilge keel. A bilge keel is a twin keel, which allows the boat to be beached. Bilge keels are the most popular keel for tidal waters.

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 0.99 - 1.09 meter (3.25 - 3.55 ft) dependent on the load.

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Prout 38 is 2.18.

Compared with other similar sail catamarans it is slimmer than 79% of all other designs.

D/L (Displacement Length Ratio)

What is Displacement Length Ratio?

The DL-ratio for Prout 38 is 156 which categorizes this boat among 'light racers'.

34% of all similar sailboat designs are categorized as heavier. A heavy displacement combined with smaller water plane area has lower acceleration and is more comfortable.

Maintenance

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.