Sail area / displacement
How much sail the boat carries for its weight — its power in light air.
- not published: sail area
How it is worked out
sail area (ft²) ÷ (displacement as ft³ of seawater)^⅔
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Rustler 57 sailing — Rustler Yachts
Design
- Designer
- Stephen Jones
Summary
Sailing MonohullSail
- Length overall
- 57.1 ft
- Beam
- 16.4 ft
- Draft
- 6.6–11.5 ft
- Air draft
- 78.7 ft
- Displacement
- 59,966 lb
- Cabins
- 3
- Steering wheels
- 1
* A standard reference image, not the actual boat — shown to help visualise this model's published dimensions.
Best Suited For
- Liveaboard
From the published figures: LOA 17.4 m · 3 cabins · fresh water 910 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.
Displacement / length
How heavy the boat is for its waterline length. Lower is lighter and quicker; higher is steadier and roomier.
- 249· Moderate
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
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.
- 44.0· Heavy offshore
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.
- 1.68· Below 2
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.
- 9.2 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.
- Fuel251 galWater240 gal
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
- 57.1 ft (17.4 m)
- Hull length
- —
- LWL
- 47.5 ft (14.49 m)
- Beam
- 16.4 ft (5 m)
- Draft (min)
- 6.6 ft (2 m)
- Draft (max)
- 11.5 ft (3.5 m)
- Air draft
- 78.7 ft (23.99 m)
- Displacement
- 59,966 lb (27,200 kg)
- Ballast
- —
- Cabins
- 3
- Heads
- —
- Berths
- —
Sail Plan
- Main sail
- 969 ft² (90 m²)
- Jib
- —
- Genoa
- —
- Sail area
- —
- Downwind sail area
- —
- Rig type
- —
Engine and Tanks
- Engine
- —
- Engine count
- —
- Engine manufacturer
- —
- Propulsion type
- —
- Fuel capacity
- 251 gal (950 L)
- Fresh water capacity
- 240 gal (910 L)
- Black water capacity
- —
Construction
- Mast material
- —
- Hull material
- —
- Deck material
- —
- Keel type
- —
- Rudder type
- —
- Steering wheels
- 1
Builder's Own Figures
- Yankee
- 88 m2
- J
- 6.78 m
- I
- 20.93 m
- Staysail
- 29 m2
- E
- 8.15 m
- P
- 20.15 m
Figures read fromthe builder's page
Brochure
Download the official Rustler 57 brochure (PDF)About Rustler Yachts
Semi-custom
British builder of hand-built, bespoke cruising monohulls, based in Falmouth since the early 1980s.
The first Rustler 36 was built at Falmouth in the early 1980s, and Rustler has been building there ever since, by hand, in a mixture of traditional method and current technology. Hundreds of owners have had a boat designed and built for them in that time, and no two have ever been specified alike. The yachts are manufactured on the premises rather than assembled from parts: the engineering, the moulding and the joinery are all done by the yard's own staff, and nothing is outsourced. The company is deliberately small and personal, and an owner deals directly with the people building the boat, from the tailored design through the handover trials.
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