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Review of Shielmartin


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Shielmartin is a sailboat designed by the maritime architect James B. Kearney in the mid fifties. Only a few boats have been produced. The Shielmartin is built by Southern Marine Ltd..

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Hull
The hull is made of wood.

Keel

The Shielmartin is equipped with a long keel. A long keel provide a better directional stability than a similar boat with a fin keel; on the other hand, better directional stability means also that the boat is more difficult to handle in a harbour with less space.


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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