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Ontario Yachts Ontario 32
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1974-1986 · designed by C&C
Key figures
Comfort21.9moderate
Capsize screen2.06fails the screen
SA/D16.8cruiser
D/L235moderate
Ballast ratio0.41stiff
Hull speed6.9kt
- Built
- 1974-1986
- Designer
- C&C
- Builder
- Ontario Yachts (CAN)
- Rig
- Masthead Sloop
- Keel
- Fin w/spade rudder, lead ballast
- Length
- 32.0 ft
- Beam / draft
- 11.0 ft · 4.5 ft
- Displacement
- 9,800 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsrespectedpicked over its peers
Overbuilt, roomy C&C-lineage cruiser with a Bahamas following; mind the small rudder
- Coastal cruising
- respected · roomy cabin and cockpit, big lockers, solid feel
- Offshore passages
- respected · owners have crossed the Atlantic and would again
- Liveaboard
- ordinary · space and storage good for a 32
- Loved
- generous cabin and cockpit space · abundant cockpit locker storage · heavily built hull · seakindly for its size
- Gripes
- smallish rudder worries owners · rudder bearings tend to loosen · aging original wiring and systems
- Survey for
- deck core moisture at stanchions and chainplates · cockpit sole core around pedestal and winches · rudder looseness, prior rebuilds · small keel cracks and leaking ports
- Cross-shopped
- Aloha 32 · Bayfield 32C · C&C 32 · Niagara 31
Owner opinion from cruisersforum.com, cruisersforum.com, sailnet.com, cruisersforum.com
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