Swan 120

Design

Designer

Germán Frers

Interior designer

Misa Poggi

Summary

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.

Dimensions

LOA

124.5 ft (37.94 m)

Hull length

119.4 ft (36.4 m)

LWL

107.7 ft (32.84 m)

Beam

26.6 ft (8.12 m)

Draft (min)

11.5 ft (3.5 m)

Draft (max)

18 ft (5.5 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

218,257 lb (99,000 kg)

Ballast

67,461 lb (30,600 kg)

Cabins

4

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

3,880 ft² (360.5 m²)

Jib

3,579 ft² (332.5 m²)

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

8,073 ft² (750 m²)

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

450 hp

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

full carbon fibre

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Displacement (loaded)

112000 kg

Tender

4.5 metres

Starting batteries

24 V 75 Ah / 20 h

Shore power

230/400 V 50A 3-phase

P

43.00 mt

Diesel generator

2 x 230/400 V 32 kW 3-phase

Service battery

24 V 1980 Ah / 1 h

J

13.85 mt

I

44.42 mt

Radio battery

24 V 180 Ah / 1 h

E

14.10 mt

Fore triangle

307 sqm

Layouts & Drawings

3 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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  swan120 sailplan 03 — Nautor Swan

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  swan120 sailplan 03 opt short — Nautor Swan

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  swan120 sailplan 03 opt long — Nautor Swan

Brochure

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.

The Nautor Swan Range

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

1. ClubSwan 125Discontinued139.8 ft
2. Swan 128127.9 ft
3. Swan 120· this modelDiscontinued124.5 ft
4. Swan 108117 ft
5. Swan 98101.9 ft
6. Swan 8892.7 ft
7. Swan 8083.8 ft
8. ClubSwan 80Discontinued81 ft
9. Swan 7377.7 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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