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Newbridge Venturer 22
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Brief details |
Builder |
Newbridge Yachts, Chard, Somerset |
A compact trailer-sailer
with good accommodation for her size, the Venturer makes a good
small coastal or estuary cruiser, and is small enough to be trailed
if required, though with her hull configuration is better craned
on and off the trailer. The lifting keel version has a centreboard
inside a shallow stub fin keel. Most boats sold however were bilge-keelers,
as illustrated here. As with all trailer-sailers, the presence or
otherwise of a trailer, and its condition, has a significant effect
on value. |
LOA |
22' 1" |
Sail area |
248 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
18' 1" |
Rig |
sloop |
Beam |
7' 10" |
Cabins |
1 |
Draught |
2' 3 bilge keels, 3' 8" fin keel or 2' 2" to 3' 8"
lifting keel |
Berths |
4 |
Displacement |
2,750 lbs |
Engine |
various outboards |
Ballast |
1,160 lbs bilge keels, 1,100 lbs fin or 1,165 lbs lifting keel |
BHP |
typically 6 - 8 |
Keel type |
Twin bilge keels and skeg-hung rudder (most common),
also fin and lifting keel versions built |
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Through the 1970s and 80s Newbridge Boats,
later known as NB Yachts, were based first in Bridport and
later in Chard, and built a number of small yachts, the first
of which were the low elegant Corribee 21s and the heavier,
chunkier Virgo Voyager 23s.
Although both were popular, the market market soon demanded
more interior space than could be squeezed into the elegant
little hull of the Corribee, and the Voyagers were too big
and heavy for easy trailing, so Bill Dixon (designer of many
large Moodys) was commissioned to design two trailer-sailers
for the company. The results were the smaller Navigator, and
the larger Venturer 22.
These had modern high-volume hulls, with the visual effect
of high topsides and substantial cabin tops disguised by styling
stripes of paintwork. The end result is to pack a lot of accommodation
into a small trailable hull. These boats were built to take
outboards in wells in the cockpit, although a few have been
modified to fit a small diesel.
Fin keels and centreboards were offered as options, but the
vast majority of Navigators and Venturers built were the bilge
keel versions.
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