Crescent
Description
The Crescent is a pioneering American one-design racing keelboat, designed by Richard (Dick) Hill, a Ford Motor Company engineer and artist, in 1953. Built exclusively in Detroit, Michigan, from 1953 to 1974, only 27 fiberglass hulls were produced, making it one of the earliest production fiberglass sailboats in the world and the oldest continuously raced fiberglass one-design class. Inspired by the Crescent Sail Yacht Club on Lake St. Clair, Michigan, it started as a garage project using a plaster mold from an existing wooden hard-chine racing sloop. The class remains active in regional racing, emphasizing simplicity, durability, and equalized performance.
The standard boat dimensions
| i | 16 ft |
|---|---|
| j | 5 ft |
| p | 20 ft |
| e | 10 ft |
| p2 | - |
| e2 | - |
| i2 | - |
| j2 | - |
| I | J | P | E | P2 | E2 | I2 | J2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 ft | 5 ft | 20 ft | 10 ft | - | - | - | - |
Sails
Crescent - MAINSAIL
| Luff | 20 ft - (6096 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 10 ft - (3048 mm) |
| Leech | * 21.38 ft - (6517 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 85.2 ° |
| Diagonal | 21.6 ft - (6584 mm) |
| Head (inches) | * 4.5 in - (114 mm) |
| Area | * 102.91 ft² |
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Crescent - JIBSAIL
| Luff | 18 ft - (5486 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 7 ft - (2134 mm) |
| Leech | 14 ft - (4267 mm) |
| Percentage LP | * 99.6 % |
| Length Perpendicular | * 4.98 ft - (1518 mm) |
| Deck Angle | * 27.26 ° |
| Area | * 44.84 ft² |
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Crescent - JIBSAIL
| Luff | 18 ft - (5486 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 6 ft - (1829 mm) |
| Leech | 14 ft - (4267 mm) |
| Length Perpendicular | * 3.9 ft - (1189 mm) |
| Area | * 35.14 ft² |
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Crescent - JIBSAIL
| Luff | 16.5 ft - (5029 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 6 ft - (1829 mm) |
| Leech | 14.75 ft - (4496 mm) |
| Length Perpendicular | * 5.33 ft - (1625 mm) |
| Area | * 44 ft² |
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Disclaimer. Boats are not all the same -- even when produced in the same factory of the same model. Sailrite does its best to publish accurate dimensions, but we often find it worthwhile to have our customers measure their boats carefully before we produce kits for them. You should take the same precautions, especially when the data is not from Sailrite. The information on this site is not guaranteed to be accurate. Sailrite offers this content as a service to our community, but takes no responsibility for the reliability of the data provided.