Grand Soleil 341
Cantiere del Pardo · Alessandro Vismara · 1999
Updated
The Grand Soleil 341 is a 10.02 m displacement racing yacht designed by Alessandro Vismara and built by Cantiere del Pardo, first launched in 1999. It races in Class C.
Length
10.02 m
32′ 10″
Beam
3.26 m
Draft
2.15 m
Displacement
4.9 t
Sail area
67 m²
On the podium
Where a Grand Soleil 341 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
3
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 3 starts by 1 boat between 2022 and 2024, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Grand Soleil 341 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata Brindisi-Corfù2024- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2023
- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2022
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: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 3 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Grand Soleil 341 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Met too few times for a figure:
Grand Soleil 40 (Paperini) (4 meetings), X-412 (5 meetings), First 40.7 (5 meetings), Dufour 40 (3 meetings), First 36.7 (2 meetings), Farr 39 (2 meetings), Bavaria 46 (2 meetings), Solaris 36 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 49 (3 meetings), Oceanis 393 (2 meetings), Bavaria Cruiser 39 (2 meetings), Bavaria Match 35 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 42 (Lombard) (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 410 (2 meetings), Sun Fast 3600 (1 meeting), Xp 44 (1 meeting), X-41 (1 meeting), Bavaria Match 38 (1 meeting), Comet 45 (1 meeting), Oceanis 43 (1 meeting), X-482 (1 meeting), Elan 40 (1 meeting), First 35 (Farr) (1 meeting), Bavaria 430 (1 meeting), Grand Soleil 37 (Design) (1 meeting), Comet 36 (1 meeting), Salona 37 (1 meeting), Ice 70 (1 meeting), Dehler 34 (Judel/Vrolijk) (1 meeting), Hanse 455 (1 meeting), Marchi 39 (1 meeting), First 47.7 (1 meeting), Hanse 540e (1 meeting), Show 34 (1 meeting), Grand Soleil 40 (Polli) (1 meeting), Elan S5 (1 meeting), Farr 40 (1 meeting), Solaris 44 (1 meeting), Mumm 36 (1 meeting), Bonin 358 (1 meeting)
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
5.05
38°
Beam reach
7.94
90°
Broad reach
8.77
135°
Downwind VMG
7.64
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.
Soft conditions suit it. In the light it does more than its numbers promise, and gives some of that back when the wind arrives.
Where it gains
Its best ground is to windward in the light stuff, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage on the run as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short off the wind in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
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 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the upwind.
How fast is a Grand Soleil 341
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.50 | 4.64 | 4.97 | 5.05 |
| 52° | 5.26 | 6.63 | 6.94 | 7.04 |
| 60° | 5.51 | 6.80 | 7.12 | 7.24 |
| 75° | 5.68 | 6.93 | 7.35 | 7.58 |
| 90° | 5.56 | 6.96 | 7.47 | 7.94 |
| 110° | 5.44 | 7.05 | 7.68 | 8.18 |
| 120° | 5.26 | 6.99 | 7.74 | 8.55 |
| 135° | 4.72 | 6.69 | 7.54 | 8.77 |
| 150° | 4.02 | 6.08 | 7.19 | 8.28 |
| Run VMG | 3.49 | 5.29 | 6.54 | 7.64 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. Crew weight is declared around 490 kg.
Rigging
Grand Soleil 341 rig and sail dimensions
A Grand Soleil 341 carries 12.09 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.38 m boom, a forestay 13.78 m above the deck and a 4.69 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 6 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails