Review of Musketeer 17
Basic specs.
The Musketeer 17 is a small catamaran designed by the British maritime architect
James Roderick Macalpine-Downie together with
Dick Gibbs from in the early seventies. The Musketeer 17 is built by the American yard
Chrysler Marine.
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Hull
The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.
Rig
The boat equipped with a fractional rig. A fractional rig has smaller headsails which make tacking easier, which is an advantage for cruisers and racers, of course. The downside is that having the wind from behind often requires a genaker or a spinnaker for optimal speed.
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.
Sorry, we do not have sufficient statistical information available for this boat to provide a significant reliable analysis.
Maintenance
Boat owner's ideas
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Finally
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