Gib Sea 302
Gibert Marine · Joubert/Nivelt · 1996
Updated
The Gib Sea 302 is a 8.99 m heavy displacement racing yacht designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Gibert Marine, first launched in 1996. It races in Class C.
Length
8.99 m
29′ 6″
Beam
3.35 m
Draft
1.64 m
Displacement
3.3 t
Sail area
44 m²
On the podium
Where a Gib Sea 302 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
8
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Read from 8 starts by 2 boats between 2017 and 2024, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Gib Sea 302 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Κύπελο Βορείου Αιγαίου & Πανελλήνιο Κύπελο Sportboat 2022024
Regata de Cruceros Castell de Cullera2017
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: 4 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 4 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Gib Sea 302 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
First 44.7 (7 meetings), X-372 (7 meetings), JOD 35 (7 meetings), Bavaria Match 35 (7 meetings), Elan 37 (7 meetings), Atlantic 31 (7 meetings), Mount Gay 30 (7 meetings), Gib Sea 33 (7 meetings), Sun Legende 41 (7 meetings), First 31.7 (7 meetings), Fiumanka 33 (7 meetings), Sun Odyssey 37.1 (7 meetings), Salona 37 (1 meeting), Drac One Ton (1 meeting), Kalik 33 (1 meeting), First 27.7 (1 meeting), Bavaria 36 (1 meeting), First Class 8 (1 meeting), Carter 42 (1 meeting), Farr 39 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Gib Sea 302 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
4.83
39°
Beam reach
7.44
90°
Broad reach
7.86
135°
Downwind VMG
6.97
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
It needs pressure to show what it can do. Give it a fresh day and long legs and it delivers more than it promised; in a drifter it is working uphill.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beat once it pipes up, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage on a reach as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short upwind in light air, giving away time it never gets back.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Gib Sea 302
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 2.73 | 3.83 | 4.52 | 4.83 |
| 52° | 4.24 | 5.76 | 6.44 | 6.78 |
| 60° | 4.49 | 5.98 | 6.59 | 7.01 |
| 75° | 4.64 | 6.14 | 6.75 | 7.33 |
| 90° | 4.64 | 6.37 | 7.01 | 7.44 |
| 110° | 4.75 | 6.44 | 7.18 | 8.12 |
| 120° | 4.58 | 6.31 | 7.08 | 8.19 |
| 135° | 4.08 | 5.94 | 6.83 | 7.86 |
| 150° | 3.47 | 5.35 | 6.51 | 7.48 |
| Run VMG | 3.01 | 4.66 | 5.90 | 6.97 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Roughly half carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 480 kg.
Rigging
Gib Sea 302 rig and sail dimensions
A Gib Sea 302 carries 9.70 m of mainsail hoist on a 3.10 m boom, a forestay 11.01 m above the deck and a 3.24 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 3 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails