CIGALE 15 QR

Design

Designer

Finot-Conq

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category A · LOA 15.7 m · fresh water 400 L

• Performance Cruising

  From the published figures: SA/D 26.4 (upwind 140 m², displacement 12500 kg) · 3 cabins

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 15.7 m · 3 cabins · fresh water 400 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

51.5 ft (15.7 m)

Hull length

47.6 ft (14.5 m)

LWL

—

Beam

15.4 ft (4.7 m)

Draft (min)

5.3 ft (1.62 m)

Draft (max)

10.8 ft (3.3 m)

Air draft

68.9 ft (21 m)

Displacement

27,558 lb (12,500 kg)

Ballast

7,055 lb (3,200 kg)

Cabins

2–3

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

775 ft² (72 m²)

Jib

—

Genoa

732 ft² (68 m²)

Sail area

1,507 ft² (140 m²)

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

50 hp

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

shaft drive

Fuel capacity

159 gal (600 L)

Fresh water capacity

106 gal (400 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

Aluminium

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Genoa

68 m2

Draft

centreboard up 1,62 m / down 3,30 m

CE

A (under process)

Upwind sail area

140 m2

Mainsail

72 m2

Engine

50CV shaft drive

Loaded displacement

16 500 kg

Displacement basis

light displacement (page figure)

Layouts & Drawings

1 drawing from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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  cigale15QR-profil01-e1662990411375 — Alubat

About Alubat

Semi-custom

French builder of all-aluminium lifting-keel blue-water yachts — the OVNI range (370, 430, 490, 650) and the CIGALE 15 QR — founded in 1973 at Les Sables-d'Olonne.

The Alubat yard was founded in 1973 at Les Sables-d'Olonne in the Vendée. In 1978 it launched the OVNI range -- aluminium centreboarders with hard chines -- which laid down the concept that still defines the marque; from 25 to 58 feet, 28 models have been developed in more than fifty years with naval architects Philippe Briand, Marc Lombard, Alain Mortain, Yiannis Mavrikios and the CBA studio of Alain Bechetoille, Jean-Pierre Brouns and Nina Karlseder, and the first OVNI 28 reached Switzerland in 1980. A new page opened in 1994 with the Cigale range, drawn by Jean-Marie Finot and Pascal Conq and later Marc Lombard, aluminium keelboats of the ultra-light-displacement type built for lightness and performance. In 2023 Luc Jurien, at the head of the yard since 2021, took it over with his team; the OVNI 490 joined the new-generation OVNIs in 2025 with a wheelhouse that changes the way of sailing, and for 2027 the Cigale line is renewed with the Finot-Conq Cigale 15 QR with lifting keel.

The Alubat Range

Every model Alubat publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. OVNI 65068.9 ft
2. OVNI 49052.3 ft
3. CIGALE 15 QR· this model51.5 ft
4. OVNI 43042.5 ft
5. OVNI 37039.2 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

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