Archambault Coco

Short description: Sailboat class

Archambault CocoDevelopment

Designer| Harlé - Mortain
Location| France
Year| 1985
No. built| 110
Builder(s)| Archambault Boats
Role| Racer
Boat
Boat weight| 2,535 lb (1,150 kg)
Draft| 4.46 ft (1.36 m)
Hull
Type| monohull
Construction| fibreglass
LOA| 21.33 ft (6.50 m)
LWL| 20.34 ft (6.20 m)
Beam| 8.86 ft (2.70 m)
Hull appendages
Keel/board type| fin keel
Ballast| 992 lb (450 kg)
Rudder(s)| skeg-mounted rudder
Rig
Rig type| Bermuda rig
Sails
Sailplan| fractional rigged sloop
Mainsail area| 187 sq ft (17.4 m2)
Jib/genoa area| 98 sq ft (9.1 m2)
Spinnaker area| 431 sq ft (40.0 m2)
Gennaker area| 646 sq ft (60.0 m2)
Other sails| Genoa: 183 sq ft (17.0 m2)
Upwind sail area| 365 sq ft (33.9 m2)
Downwind sail area| 1,010 sq ft (94 m2)

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The Archambault Coco is a French sailboat that was designed by Harlé - Mortain as a Classe Mini racer for racing in the Mini Transat 6.50. It was first built in 1985.[1][2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Production
* 2 Design
* 3 Operational history
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Production

The design was built by Archambault Boats of Dangé-Saint-Romain, France , with 110 boats completed between 1985 and 2002, but it is now out of production. Archambault, which had been founded in 1967, went out of business in 2015.[1][3][4]

## Design

The Coco is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig. The hull has a plumb stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 2,535 lb (1,150 kg) and carries 992 lb (450 kg) of ballast.[1][3]

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 431 sq ft (40.0 m2) or an asymmetrical spinnaker of 646 sq ft (60.0 m2). It has a hull speed of 6.04 kn (11.19 km/h).[3]

## Operational history

Classe Mini

The boat is supported by an active club, the Class Mini 650, that organizes racing events for Classe Mini boats with a length overall of 21.33 ft (6.50 m). The major race run for this class of sailboats is the Mini Transat 6.50, a solo transatlantic yacht race, that typically starts in France and ends in Le Marin, Martinique in the Caribbean.[5]

## See also

* List of sailing boat types

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Coco (Archambault) sailboat". sailboatdata.com. https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/coco-archambault.
2. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Philippe Harlé 1931 - 1991". sailboatdata.com. https://sailboatdata.com/designer/harle-philippe.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "Archambault Coco". sailboat.guide. https://sailboat.guide/archambault/coco.
4. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Archambault Boats (FRA) 1967 - 2014". sailboatdata.com. https://sailboatdata.com/builder/archambault-boats-fra.
5. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Class Mini 650". sailboatdata.com. https://sailboatdata.com/association/class-mini-650.

## External links

* Video: Sailing the Coco
* Video: Coco sails and rigging

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