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Design 1780 Firebrand and others

This is a very typical R.O.R.C. racing yacht, named Firebrand. A bunch of these boats were built by various builders. This is right at the point in time when separate rudders were coming into fashion so the boats built to this design were from modified plans with separate rudder. Other modification were made to differentiate the boats, mostly with changes to the deckhouse geometry.


Here are the plans to Firebrand.


And here's a general arrangement for one of the others, with the separate rudder (and modified deckhouse, reverse transom, etc).