National Eighteen
Description
The National 18 (N18) restricted-class sailing dinghy, a classic British one-design racer/cruiser originally resulting from a 1938 design competition sponsored by the Yachting World magazine and the YRA (now RYA). The class was created to provide an affordable, versatile 18-footer suitable for both racing and family sailing, with early wooden examples built by various yards including Andersen, Rigden & Perkins Ltd; later boats were also constructed in GRP to an Ian Proctor-influenced or updated design. Hundreds of National 18s have been built over the decades (exact total unknown but the class remains active with wooden and GRP examples still sailing and being restored today). Individual boats like the GRP-hulled Sibrwd (meaning "whisper" in Welsh) are often home-restored or maintained by enthusiasts, such as owners who have undertaken extensive refits using marine plywood and traditional techniques while preserving class measurement rules for hull, appendages, rig, and sails.
Construction Details
| Designer | Unknown |
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| Builder | Andersen (UK) |
| Length | 18.000 ft |
| LOA | 18.000 ft |
| Beam | 6.083 ft |
The standard boat dimensions
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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.
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