The Scandinavian Cruiser 30
The SC 30 offers beautiful classic design, latest technology, day-sailing functionality at a reasonable price. The SC 30 target sailors who find her the most beautiful boat available, and who do not mind the attention the SC 30 will get in the yacht club or on the water.
The SC 30 is very addictive to sail because she perform and feels better than most other boats. Nothing beats that feeling as experienced SC 20 sailors already know. The SC 30 is designed to be very long, low, narrow, extremely light, with very little water resistance (drag) and very good stability.
The SC 30 can be sailed by one or two people, raced by two or three people, and cruised comfortably on a sunny day by four people.
Anybody who has tried our SC 20 can confirm the unique sailing capabilities. The advantage of the SC 30 is that she is bigger and therefore even faster and less crew weight sensitive compared to the SC 20. Other modern boats have speed, but the Scandinavian Cruisers also have style and beauty.
Pricing
The "sail-away" retail price of the SC 30 is USD 64,000 excluding optional equipment, shipping & transportation, duty and sales tax.
Detailed description
The SC30 will not be normal fast, but very fast. She will be sailing in circles around all other classic boats of a similar size. However, the SC 20 is very different from sports boats. Sports boats are wide and with huge rigs and require a large heavy crew to control them in a breeze and they are mainly designed to plane on a reach.
The SC 30 is just pure pleasure to sail. She does not make a lot of "noise" like a sports boat, but she is very fast and sensitive. The SC 30 requires much less sail area and less crew weight to move forward very fast. In light air she slides through the water and point extremely high going upwind in all conditions. The SC 30 will get up and plane on a reach, but not as early as some over-rigged sports boats.
Why will the SC 30 perform on the water?
- The low-drag lightweight hull will accelerate faster than most other keelboats in her class.
- She will point higher than most boats because of her modern high aspect underwater appendages and narrow hull.
- Her stability will be very good because of her very deep and heavy lead keel bulb.
- Her unique wingmast rig is even more efficient than the SC 20 rig.
- She will be extremely well balanced and controllable at any angel of heel, and her hull shape is designed to further improve the keel lift while heeled over as her bow goes up slightly.
- She is a very light vessel, and she will sail lightly on top of the waves rather than plowing deeply through them like heavier boats do.
The SC 30 versus the SC 20
The SC 30 is a much bigger boat than the SC 20. With her weight of 860 kg (1,900 lbs) she is 3 times heavier, and she feel like a keelboat as compared to the SC 20, which has the stability of a small keel boat, but the responsiveness and planing ability of a dinghy. “Bigger is better” when it comes to less sensitivity to crew weight, better wave handling and higher speed in displacement mode. Imagine the SC 20 and the SC 30 next to each other. Both boats are "objects of desire" but they are different. "Small is beautiful" and "bigger is better" can both be argued for. Compare it to BMW cars. The 3-series is cramped in the back seat, but it is fast, nimble and stylish. The 5-series has that extra back seat space, and it is also fast and stylish but less nimble, and you have to pay more. In other words there is a market for both models.
Additional features
We believe it was very important to offer some additional features on
the SC 30, which are impossible to offer on the SC 20. These features are:
-The portable toilet, which also serves as a seat inside the small cabin.
-The
cabin height is still too low to offer full sitting height, as you have
on the SC 40, so instead we designed the entire cabin roof as a hatch,
which opens vertically up against the mast.
- When you open the
hatch, there is a fabric windbreaker attached to it, which works as a
privacy screen. Many ladies are hesitant about going sailing in small
one-design boats because of the absence of facilities, and we believe
this is an important feature.
-Many people ask if the SC 20 has a bunk bed in the cabin! Well, the SC
30 does have a “day-bed”. Not many sailors will actually use this small
day-bed, but the flat area is also good for storage of cushions and
sails.
-The SC 20 is equipped with a round mast because at this time last
year it was not possible for us to manufacturer an oval mast in China.
This challenge has now been overcome, and the SC 30 will be equipped
with a tapered oval carbon fiber wingmast,to further improve
the aerodynamic performance of the rig.
-The SC 30 (and SC 20)
cannot sink as long as you keep the cabin hatch closed, as the cockpit
is self-draining, and you can still sail even if the cockpit is flooded
by a wave because of the huge buoyancy reserve and light weight of the
vessel. The SC 30 cockpit is higher above the waterline and will drain
better than the SC 20 cockpit when heeled.
-The SC 30 comes
with a similar carbon fiber lifting keel and lifting rudder as the SC
20, and she is therefore easily trailerable. A trailer winch will lift
the keel.
-The SC 30 (and SC 20) is shipped on padded fiberglass
cradles with galvanized steel frames, which can later be fitted on a
road trailer frame with a few brackets. The cradles protect the boat
better than trailer rollers or pads because they are molded perfectly to
the hull shape.
Measurements:
L.O.A. 30’ 9.14m
Waterline length 20' 6.10m
Beam 5’1” 1.55m
Freeboard height (lowest) 1’8” 0.5m
Keel draft 5’7” 1.7m
Keel shoal draft 1’4” 0.4m
Rudder draft 3’9” 1.15m
Rudder shoal draft 0 0
Displacement 2000 lbs 0.86 ton
Ballast 1000 lbs 0.43 ton
Ballast % 50% 50%
Mainsail 193 sqf 18 sqm
Lateral wing mast area 15 sqf 1.4 sqm
Jib 80 sqf 7.5 sqm
Asymmetrical spinnaker 333 sqf 31 sqm
Mast height above water 32’ 10.0m
For more pictures please visit:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sc-30
Click here for an overview of all Scandinavian Cruiser Yachts.
These are photos taking during the first test session of the SC20 in Xiamen, China in 2010.
