Swan 76
The Swan 76 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1979.
Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1979 to 1981, with five boats completed, but it is now out of production.Design
The Swan 76 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead ketch rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel and centreboard. It was produced in both flush deck and deckhouse arrangements.The boat is fitted with a German Mercedes-Benz OM 402 diesel engine of for docking and manoeuvring.
For sailing downwind the boat may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of. The design has a hull speed of.
Variants
;Swan 76;Swan 76 DH