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Review of Norfolk Gypsy


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Norfolk Gypsy is a small sailboat. A few hundred boats have been produced. The Norfolk Gypsy is built by Neil Thompson Boats.

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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.

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

Rig

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
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 6.0 m(19.7 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Genoa sheet 6.0 m(19.7 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Mainsheet 15.0 m(49.2 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Spinnaker sheet13.2 m(43.3 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

This section shown boat owner's changes, improvements, etc. Here you might find inspiration for your boat.

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Finally

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