Review of Malö 96

Basic specs.

The Malö 96 is a sailboat designed in the mid eighties. Less than 100 boats have been produced. The Malö 96 is built by the Swedish yard Malö Yachts AB.

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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 masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

Keel

The Malö 96 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.

The boat can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.58 - 1.68 meter (5.18 - 5.48 ft) dependent on the load.

Engine

The boat is typically equipped with an inboard Volvo Penta 2003 diesel engine at 28.0 hp (20 kW).

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.

Ballast Ratio

What is a Ballast Ratio?

The ballast ratio for Malö 96 is 49%.

This ballast ratio shows a righting moment that is higher than 86% of all similar sailboat designs. A righting moment (ability to resist heeling) significantly above average.

Over- / underrigged

The Malö 96 has more rig than 42% of all similar sailboats, which indicates that the boat is slightly underrigged.

Maintenance

Rig

Dimensions of sail for masthead rig.

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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.

**Guiding dimensions of running rig**
Usage	Length		Diameter
Mainsail halyard	29.3 m	(96.1 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Jib/genoa halyard	29.3 m	(96.1 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker halyard	29.3 m	(96.1 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Jib sheet	9.7 m	(31.8 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Genoa sheet	9.7 m	(31.8 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Mainsheet	24.2 m	(79.6 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Spinnaker sheet	21.3 m	(70.0 feet)	12 mm	(1/2 inch)
Cunningham	3.8 m	(12.3 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Kickingstrap	7.5 m	(24.6 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Clew-outhaul	7.5 m	(24.6 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)

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References

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