| Swan 43 | |
| Image Boat: | File:Swan43 NED317 Cisne 2013 Euros.jpg |
| Designer: | Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens |
| Location: | Finland |
| Year: | 1967 |
| No Built: | 67 |
| Builder: | Oy Nautor AB |
| Role: | Cruiser-Racer |
| Draft: | 7.16feet |
| Displacement: | 198500NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | glassfibre |
| Loa: | 42.78feet |
| Lwl: | 31feet |
| Beam: | 11.67feet |
| Engine: | Volvo Penta MD2B 250NaN0 diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 104000NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | Skeg-mounted rudder |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 51.54feet |
| J: | 17.54feet |
| P: | 46.04feet |
| E: | 16.04feet |
| Sailplan: | Masthead sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 369.24square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 452.01square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 821.25square feet |
| Phrf: | 96-114 |
The Swan 43 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens as an Royal Ocean Racing Club rule cruiser-racer and first built in 1967. The boat is Sparkman & Stephens' design #1973.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the Swan 43, but is now usually referred to as the Swan 43 S&S to differentiate it from the unrelated 1985 Swan 43 Holland design. It was also sold in the United States as the Palmer Johnson 43.[1] [2]
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1967 to 1982 and was the second boat built by the company. A total of 67 boats were completed over its 25-year production run, an average of 2.68 boats per year, but it is now out of production.[1] [2] [5] [6] [7]
The Swan 43 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a raked stem, a raised counter, reverse transom; a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed, swept fin keel. It displaces 198500NaN0 and carries 104000NaN0 of lead ballast. The boat was delivered with a keel-mounted trim tab.[1] [2] [5]
The boat has a draft of 7.16feet with the standard keel. A short mast was a factory option with a mast about 12NaN2 lower than standard.[1] [2]
The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD2B diesel engine of 250NaN0 for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1] [2]
The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settee berths and two pilot berths in the main cabin and an aft cabin, two single berths. The galley is located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the port side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.[1] [2]
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker or an asymmetrical spinnaker.[5]
The design has a hull speed of 7.46kn and a PHRF handicap of 96 to 114.[1] [2] [8]
In a 2016 article on a Swan 43 restoration project for Yachting Monthly, Pip Hare wrote, "the Swan 43 was only the second Olin Stephens design to be produced at the Nautor's Swan yard, but its overhanging ends, short coachroof, low freeboard, sheer and tumblehome established the classic Swan lines."[5]