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Cal Yachts (also known as Jensen Marine and Cal Boats) was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa , California , headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders.
The boat has a draft of 3.67 ft (1.12 m) with the centerboard extended and 4 in (10 cm) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. [ 1 ] For sailing the design is equipped with hiking straps , a trapeze , an outhaul , boom vang , a high-mounted boom and a mainsheet traveler .
The boat was built by Cal Yachts in the United States from 1961 to 1975, but it is now out of production. [1] [3] The Cal 20 was seen by Canadian Al Nairne during a visit to California. Nairne convinced Jack Jensen of Jensen Marine to allow him to produce the Cal 20 under licence in Canada and formed Calgan Marine in North Vancouver for that ...
The Newport 20 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 2,500 lb (1,134 kg) and carries 990 lb (449 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft of 3.33 ft (1.01 m) with the standard fin keel. [1] [2] [5]
A 2016 review in Blue Water Boats described the design, "If you can get over the lack of deck space and finding place to stow your tender, you’ll find a boat that’s essentially solid, seaworthy and with the interior space of a boat 6 feet longer. She’s large enough to live in, and being so small she’s incredibly easy to handle.
The design was built in the United States starting in 1994 in California by Moore Sailboats, which built the first 35 boats. Santa Cruz Yachts then built about 20 more, before production was assumed by Ultimate Sailboats until it went bankrupt. The class association then bought the molds and had the design built by Abbott Boats in Canada.