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M34 (keelboat)

The M34 is a French sailboat that was designed by Joubert/Nivelt/Mercier as a one-design racer and first built in 2010. The boat was used as the class for the Tour de France à la voile.

Production

The design was built by Archambault Boats in France from 2010 until 2013, but it is now out of production.

Design

The M34 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass with a sandwiched core. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with a carbon fibre keel-stepped mast and fixed bowsprit, and an aluminum boom. The mast has two sets of 20° swept spreaders. The hull has a plumb stem, a raised plumb transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fin keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The keel can be partially raised for ground transportation and gives a draft of with it raised.

The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo diesel engine of with a saildrive for docking and manoeuvring, supplied by a fuel tank with a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, in two cabins. The below decks headroom is

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of . It has a hull speed of .

Operational history

The boat served as the one-design class for the Tour de France à la voile from 2011 to 2014.

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