- Length
- 8.5 m
- Beam
- 3.15 m
- Draft
- 1.62 m
- Sail area
- 32.05 m²
Specifications
Dimensions & displacement6
- Length overall
- 8.5 m
- Waterline length
- 7.54 m
- Beam
- 3.15 m
- Draft
- 1.62 m
- Displacement
- 2,900 kg
- Ballast
- 1,200 kg
Sails & rig9
- Rig type
- Sloop, fractional rig
- Sail area
- 32.05 m²
- Mainsail area
- 15.41 m²
- Foresail area
- 16.65 m²
- Foretriangle height (I)
- 10.61 m
- Foretriangle base (J)
- 3.14 m
- Mainsail luff (P)
- 10.21 m
- Mainsail foot (E)
- 3.02 m
- Forestay length
- 11.06 m
Hull & construction2
- Hull material
- Fibreglass
- Keel type
- Fin keel, skeg-hung rudder
Production & design5
- Production started
- 1983
- Production ended
- 1987
- Hulls built
- 1200
- Builder
- Kelt Marine
- Designer
- Gilles Vaton/Patrick Roseo
Performance ratios7
- Sail area / displacement
- 16.07
- Displacement / length
- 188.28
- Ballast / displacement
- 41.4 %
- Comfort ratio
- 17.15
- Capsize screening
- 2.23
- Hull speed
- 6.67 kn
- Load per cm of immersion
- 163.1 kg/cm
Yacht photography
Years, generations and variants
Kelt 8.501 generation
01
1983–1987