Class: Albacore
Status: National
Website: www.albacore.org.uk
Designer: Uffa Fox/Locks SC
Year of design: 1954
Length: 4.59m
Beam: 1.58m
Weight: 109kg
Sail Area (M²): 11.65
Spinnaker: n/a
Sitting out Aids: n/a
Construction Notes:
Initially Hot moulded ply (Fairey Marine, then GRP)
History:
The Albacore started life as a development of the Fairey Swordfish. Sailors at Locks SC, on Langston Harbour at Portsmouth, took the initial Uffa Fox design and modified it to suit their particular needs. Fairey Marine at Hamble undertook to hot mould the hulls, in the same way that the Swordfish and Firefly dinghies were being constructed and soon the boat