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| Development | |
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| Designer | Rod Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs |
| Location | United States |
| Year | 1966 |
| No. built | 5,000 |
| Builder(s) | Chrysler Corporation Texas Marine Industries Wellcraft Marine Corporation Gloucester Yachts Cardinal Yachts Nickels Boatworks WindRider LLC |
| Role | One-design racer |
| Name | Buccaneer 18 |
| Boat | |
| Displacement | 500 lb (227 kg) |
| Draft | 3.83 ft (1.17 m) with centerboard down |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| LOA | 18.00 ft (5.49 m) |
| LWL | 16.67 ft (5.08 m) |
| Beam | 6.00 ft (1.83 m) |
| Hull appendages | |
| Keel/board type | centerboard |
| Rudder(s) | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig | |
| Rig type | Bermuda rig |
| Sails | |
| Sailplan | Fractional rigged sloop |
| Mainsail area | 114 sq ft (10.6 m2) |
| Jib/genoa area | 61 sq ft (5.7 m2) |
| Spinnaker area | 178 sq ft (16.5 m2) |
| Total sail area | 175 sq ft (16.3 m2) |
| Racing | |
| D-PN | 87.9 |
The Buccaneer 18, also called the Buccaneer dinghy and the Gloucester 18, is an American planing sailing dinghy that was designed in 1966 by Rod Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs as a one-design racer and day sailer. The prototype was first shown in 1967 at Yachting's "One of a Kind" Regatta, in which it placed second.[1][2][3][4][5]
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- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "J.R. (Rod) Macalpine-Downie 1934 - 1986". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Dick Gibbs 1929 - 2009". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 90-91. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ISBN 0-395-65239-1
- ^ WindRider. "Buccaneer 18". windrider.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.