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Small Sailboats
By John Hartley
Small sailboats are from about 10 to 18 feet in length (3 to 6 metres). Small sailboats are often called sailing dinghies, because almost all have open cockpits without any cabins. Small Read more...
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Sabre 30 Sailboats
A Good Cruiser with standing headroom
The Sabre 30 sailboat is a sound cruiser, with aft cockpit and plenty of room below and 6 feet 1 in headroom.
The Sabre 30 has classic lines with an aft cockpit and a long, level coachroof, which makes the boat long longer than she is. The beam of 10 feet 6 in is about right for this size of boat, giving good space below without too wide a beam for good sailing. Very beamy cruising usually have the widest point well aft which results in a poor wetted hull shape when heeling. The Sabre 30 does not suffer from this fault.
The rigging is conventional, and the hull shape is good, with a fine bow. The Sabre 30 has a fairly short fin keel with a semi-balanced rudder, mounted on a short skeg. With a ballast ratio of 40%, the Sabre 30 will behave well in heavy weather, and should give a sea-kindly ride.
Spacious main cabin
Inside, the main cabin is spacious with full headroom, and can provide two berths. At the rear on the port side is a quarter berth while a small chart table can be swung out above. This is not really suitable for long-distance cruising – you would need to use the table which well forward in the cabin – but is OK for coast-hopping.
In the forepeak is the usual V-berth, but it is over 6 feet long, and also has storage space. There is a good galley in the Mark IIIs, and of course plenty of storage and a separate
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Early models had a 13 hp diesel, but the later ones had an 18 hp or 20 hp Westerbeke. Fuel tanks and water tanks are of good size, with the option on auxiliary tanks to increase capacity.
Overall, the Sabre 30 looks an excellent cruiser, well-made, with plenty of room for a couple to cruise extensively, or for family cruising. It should also behave very well in heavy weather.
Sabre has been building boats on Sebago Lake near Portland, since the 1970s, starting with a 28-footer and the Sabre 30 was introduced in 1979. Now they produce yachts from 36-feet upward – like many sail boat builders they found that the costs of building 28-30 feet was almost as high as for a 36-footer.
However, there are plenty of Sabre 30 around, and they still make excellent cruisers. Because the company has been making fiberglass boats since 1970, the quality is good, and you should be able to find a good model from the early 90s perhaps a Mark III for around $60,000. The 28-footers are generally quite old these days, but are a cheaper alternative.
Sabre 30 Sailboat Mk IIISpecification
LOA: 30'7”(9.3 m)
LWL: 25'6" (7.8 m)
Beam: 10'6" (3.2 m)
Draft: 5'3" (1.6 m)
Displacement: 4.2 tons (4265 kg)
Ballast: 1.7 tons ( 1725 kg)
Ballast ratio: 40%
Sail Area: 462 sq ft
Engine: Westerbeke 20 bhp
There is also a company called Sabre Yachts at Highbridge, Somerset in the UK. This is a much smaller firm, which used to make a 27-footer and more recently a 35-footer which was actually a 32-footer with a scoop stern added to increase length.
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