Sail area / displacement
How much sail the boat carries for its weight — its power in light air.
- not published: displacement
How it is worked out
sail area (ft²) ÷ (displacement as ft³ of seawater)^⅔
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Design
- Naval architect
- Juan Kouyoumdjian
Summary
- Length overall
- 36.1 ft
- Beam
- 11.8 ft
- Draft
- 9 ft
- Air draft
- —
- Displacement
- —
* A standard reference image, not the actual boat — shown to help visualise this model's published dimensions.
Sailing Ratios
Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.
Displacement / length
How heavy the boat is for its waterline length. Lower is lighter and quicker; higher is steadier and roomier.
- not published: displacement
How it is worked out
displacement (long tons) ÷ (0.01 × waterline length in ft)³
Ballast ratio
The share of the weight carried in the keel — a rough guide to stiffness, though how deep that weight sits matters as much.
- not published: ballast, displacement
How it is worked out
ballast ÷ displacement × 100
Comfort ratio
Ted Brewer's measure of how gently a boat moves in a seaway. Higher means a slower, easier motion.
- not published: displacement
How it is worked out
displacement (lb) ÷ (0.65 × (0.7 × LWL + 0.3 × LOA) × beam^1.333), lengths in ft
Capsize screening
A guide from the inquiry after the 1979 Fastnet race: below 2 was taken as suited to ocean passages. It ignores hull shape and where the ballast sits.
- not published: displacement
How it is worked out
beam (ft) ÷ (displacement as ft³ of seawater)^⅓
Hull speed
Roughly the speed a displacement hull reaches before it has to climb its own bow wave.
- 7.9 kn
How it is worked out
1.34 × √(waterline length in ft), in knots
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.
Fuel and water on one scale: a tank twice the height holds twice as much.
- Fuel13 galWaternot published
Design Category
Certified CE design category B (Offshore): the wind and waves the EU Recreational Craft Directive says this boat is designed to take.
- D
Sheltered waters
- Wind
- up to Beaufort 4
- Waves
- up to 0.3 m
- C
Inshore
- Wind
- up to Beaufort 6
- Waves
- up to 2 m
- BThis boat
Offshore
- Wind
- up to Beaufort 8
- Waves
- up to 4 m
- A
Ocean
- Wind
- above Beaufort 8
- Waves
- above 4 m
Design limits set by the EU Recreational Craft Directive (2013/53/EU), in significant wave height. A category covers the conditions of those below it. It is the limit the boat was designed to, not a promise that it is safe in any conditions within it — that judgement stays with the skipper.
A figure marked with a quote mark was read from the builder's page. Open it for the exact line, the page and the date.
Dimensions
- LOA
- 36.1 ft (10.99 m)
- Hull length
- —
- LWL
- 34.9 ft (10.64 m)
- Beam
- 11.8 ft (3.6 m)
- Draft (min)
- 9 ft (2.75 m)
- Draft (max)
- 9 ft (2.75 m)
- Air draft
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Ballast
- —
- Cabins
- —
- Heads
- —
- Berths
- —
Sail Plan
- Main sail
- 635 ft² (59 m²)
- Jib
- 361 ft² (33.5 m²)
- Genoa
- —
- Sail area
- —
- Downwind sail area
- 1,442 ft² (134 m²)
- Rig type
- —
Engine and Tanks
- Engine
- 14 hp
- Engine count
- 1
- Engine manufacturer
- —
- Propulsion type
- —
- Fuel capacity
- 13 gal (50 L)
- Fresh water capacity
- —
- Black water capacity
- —
Construction
- Mast material
- —
- Hull material
- E-Glass epoxycorecell foam with carbon reinforcement
- Deck material
- —
- Keel type
- —
- Rudder type
- —
- Steering wheels
- —
Builder's Own Figures
- ISP
- 15.54 m
- J
- 4.77 m
- I
- 13.11 m
- Service battery
- 100 Ah 12V
- Shore power
- 230 V 30 A
- E
- 5.80 m
- Engine starting battery
- 23 Ah 12V
- Electric engine power
- 10.0 kW
- SPL
- 7.38 m
- P
- 15.12 m
Figures read fromwww.nautorswan.com/yachts/models/clubswan36/· specificationsread 9/20/2026
Layouts & Drawings
6 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.
sailplan 3 — Nautor Swan
clubswan36 deck 3 — Nautor Swan
clubswan36 deck 4 — Nautor Swan
clubswan36 deck 2 — Nautor Swan
clubswan36 deck 5 — Nautor Swan
clubswan36 deck 1 — Nautor Swan
Brochure
Download the official ClubSwan 36 brochure (PDF)About Nautor Swan
Premium production
Finnish builder of luxury sailing yachts, founded in 1966 in Pietarsaari and known worldwide as Nautor Swan.
Oy Nautor AB was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä at Pietarsaari, Finland, on centuries of Finnish boatbuilding and a wish to build high-performance sailing yachts of high quality. The first was the Swan 36, whose glass-reinforced hull came with a number of other innovations: it matched the traditional wooden yacht for performance and safety while steering more steadily, weighing less and offering more room below. Sparkman & Stephens drew roughly the first thousand Swans, the Swan 38 and Swan 47 among them, and the larger, seagoing Swan 55 and Swan 65 followed -- one of them, Sayula II, winning the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74. Ron Holland designed five yachts between 1978 and 1981, including the Swan 37, 39 and 42, and Germán Frers became the principal designer through the 1980s, later opening the one-design racing division with the Swan 45 in 2001 and the ClubSwan 42 in 2005. More than 2,350 yachts between 28 and 131 feet have been built in six decades. Everything is made at Pietarsaari, where engineering sits beside production, and the range now runs across six lines: Swan, Swan Maxi, ClubSwan, Swan Alloy, SwanScape and the motor yacht division Swan Shadow.
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