The most active and the
most spread small monotype on our coasts for more than ten years |
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PHOTOS
Editorial:
| In 1970, I was in charge of the rating IOR. I represented, during a little while, France beside the ORC (Offshore Rating Council), international organizer for the offshore races. In this time the ORC administered the problems of offshore safety and the rating IOR . |
| At present, this body administers besides
the rating IMS. At the end of 1970, it seemed to us that the rating IOR reached a limit: the boats became more and more complicated, expensive, and nevertheless neither more maritime nor more effective. |
| I wished to develop monotypes. I was
associated with J. Fauroux and Bénéteau to develop a new French monotype in the category
of 8 metres. The boat had a good success at once because from the first year we sold more
boats than it had been built of quarter ton cup since the origin. |
| At first, we wanted to make a complete
boat which can race but also which can take the family for outings, as a day-boat. |
| This compromise has advantages: not giving
an image of speed racing boat difficulty useful in family. But the operations
in crew is sometimes a little more complicated and less practical because of the
benches of cockpit. |
| The boat had a continuous and regular development during more than twelve years, near 1000 boats were built. |
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Jean Marie Finot |
Characteristics:
| Overall lengths: | 8.50 m | 
Photo of the magazine Boats of September, 1995 |
| Length hull: | 7.85 m | |
| Lenths W.L. | 7.10 m | |
| Beam maximum: | 2.49 m | |
| Draft: | 0.70 m / 1.75 m | |
| Light displacement: | 1400 kg | |
| Ballast : | 515 kg | |
| Berths : | 4 personnes | |
Sail area: |
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| Main sail: | 20.30 M ² | 
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| Light genoa: | 18.50 M ² | |
| Spinnaker: | 49.00 M ² | |
| Hull: It was conceived in order to be:
It also has a great prismatic coefficient. |
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Ballast: The ballast is a raisable keel which comes to fit in a
centreboard box in the boat. This keel is held by an axis, two bearings on each side and a jack. |
| Rigging: | ||
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th rigging with two runners. The relatively moderate foresail and the great Main sail allows a better adaptation of the sails to the variations of the wind. The inside is sober: |
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The rudder is raisable.
The boat is carried by the hull and by the beam at stern. The beam, at first in aluminum,
was fabricated then in laminate.
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Drawing resulting from Die Yacht (in March, 1983) |
Photos resulting from the brochure Bénéteau |
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This First Class 8, what an old devil, always so dashing, 15 years after the launch! |
 Jacques Fauroux 1, rue Pierre
Vaudenay (les Metz) |
Z.I des Mares |
