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RS QUEST – REMARKABLE BEST-SELLING FAMILY AND TRAINING SAILBOAT

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The RS Quest provides a very stable environment for both youth and adults taking up sailing, as well as those wishing to move on to a more intermediate level, such as spinnaker handling. The RS Quest does all this very well in various wind conditions without becoming too much to handle. Instead, it keeps sailors engaged and does not overwhelm them while they are still gaining the confidence they need in the initial stages of experience afloat. The RS Quest is an ideal solution to sail training venues’ constant dilemma regarding which boat to choose for an entry-level multi-person teaching platform. I am excited by the RS Quest from its use in club-based and national sail training programmes worldwide.

Training and Development Manager , World Sailing

CEO , Sea Cadets

The RS Quest is just a fantastic workhorse across our club and high school programs and a ton of fun to boot!! It is reliable, tough and effective – the ‘Ute’ of our activities!”

President of Hunters Hill , Australia

Resort Operations Watersports Manager , Mark Warner Ltd

Big feel from a compact boat

RS Comptec PE3 rotomoulded polyethylene construction
Engineered for maximum strength and minimum maintenance
Exceptionally stable hull – unrivalled in this size
Large, self draining, cockpit for up to 4 adults

Configurable to suit you

Open plan or with spray shedding foredeck
Removable seats and thwart
Main and jib
Asymmetric or symmetrical spinnaker options
Trapeze option
Outboard motor bracket option

Adventures afloat

Exceptional features for family sailing and exploration
Sparkling and fun – practical and reassuring
Easy to transport – quick to rig

Training excellence

Developed in conjunction with the UK Sea Cadets & training experts
Unrivalled practically and range of use
Already the world’s best-selling boat of its size in the training sector

Convenience ashore and afloat

Pivoting mast heel for easy rigging
Hand holds for easy lifting
Towing eyes
Lifting points
3 point landing on bilge rails
Rub rail reinforcement near transom

Easy rig control

Jib furler for safety and launch / recovery convenience
Mainsail slab reefing
2-part aluminium mast
External halyards and boom controls for easy maintenance
Durable Dacron sails

User friendly foils

Pivoting centreboard
Durable aluminium rudder blade
Tiller driven lift & lock rudder system

RS Quest Options

Foredeck with additional storage
Mainsail size options
Asymmetric spinnaker
Symmetrical spinnaker
Mast head flotation system
Trapeze kit
Launching trolley
Road trailer base

SPECIFICATION

		RS Quest
Designer	Jo Richards & RS Sailing
Length	4.29m (14'1")
Beam	1.83m (6'0")
Hull Weight	140kg (309lbs)
Max Crew Weight	365kg (805lbs)
Mainsail	8.4m² (90ft²) - Dacron
Jib	2.7m² (29ft²) - Dacron
Asymmetric Spinnaker	11.0m² (118ft²)
Symmetric Spinnaker	10.0m² (107ft²)
Hull Construction	Comptec PE3 Durable Polyethylene
Mast	2-Part Aluminium Alloy
Boom	Aluminium Alloy
Spinnaker Pole	Aluminium Alloy
Rudder Blade	Aluminium Alloy
Rudder Stock	Moulded Glass/Nylon – Lift & Lock System
Tiller Extension	Aluminium Alloy
Centreboard	GRP
Deck Fittings	Allen/Selden
Foredeck	Polyethylene
Top Cover	Polycotton Breathable
Trapeze Kit
Centre Mainsheet Swivel Base Kit
Furled Jib Sock Cover
Outboard Motor Mount
Masthead Float Kit
Launching Trolley
Roadbase Trailer

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$ 11,995.00

Simple, stable and durable, the RS Quest sets the standard for training and recreational sailboats worldwide. A direct response to market demands for a 14′ dinghy that is self bailing and large enough for up to 3 or 4 adults, the RS Quest delivers. Drawing on over 20 years of experience building roto-molded boats, RS Sailing brings everything they have learned to the new RS Quest. With internal bench seating, optional symmetric and asymmetric spinnaker setups, high boom, and extremely tough roto-molded construction, the RS Quest is perfect for learn to sail programs, families, and sailors of all ages.

Available on backorder

Description

The RS Quest has an exceptionally stable hull and large self-draining cockpit
There is an optional fore deck for added storage and wave deflection
With asymmetric and symmetrical spinnaker options, the RS Quest can be setup as the ultimate training platform to prepare for moving on to most any other sailboat.
The mast thwart is removable for ease of maintenance
The RS Quest has a curved handle shaped gunwale for easy carrying and launching
The 3 point landing tie downs and towing eyes are convenient and easily replaced
Capsize recovery handles on outside of the RS Quest’s hull reduce dependency on the dagger board to help right the boat and make it easier for sailors to stay with the boat when flipped over
A roller furling jib makes sail changes and dock or launch ramp approaches a breeze
With a fixed fore stay the jib can be removed and the RS Quest sails very well balanced with just the main sail
The boat has a two piece aluminum mast with a foam filled top section to prevent inversion
Optional external or internal main halyard
The RS Quest main and jib are made from heavy duty Dacron
A friction based pivoting centerboard means no control lines and the board will automatically lift if run into anything in shallow water
Durable aluminum rudder blade with tiller controlled lift & lock system

CONSTRUCTION

3 Layer rotomolded RS Comptec PE3 construction
Tough outer skin, foam core for stiffness, strong inner skin
Thickness added in high load areas which enables reduced overall weight
Built in buoyancy with foam layer
Brass inserts molded right into the hull of the RS Quest create added strength and make it very easy to switch between rig setups
Engineered for maximum strength and minimum maintenance

SPECIFICATIONS

Length	14’1″
Beam	6′
Main/Jib Area	118ft2
Asymmetric Area	118ft2
Symmetric Area	107ft2
Hull Weight	220lbs
Designer	Jo Richards

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The RS Quest is a modern family or training dinghy with features that move the game forward. Big enough for an instructor and 2 or 3 students - perfect for the family - small enough to handle easily onshore and afloat. Inspired by the UK Sea Cadets to replace their aging fleet, the RS Quest has rapidly become the best-selling dinghy of its type worldwide. Durable rotomoulded polyethylene construction – space and stability – reefing, spinnaker, stowage and a host of other options. It’s not easy to make it all work but our development team have nailed it on this boat.

RS Comptec PE3 rotomoulded polyethylene construction give maximum strength and minimum maintenance
Exceptionally stable hull unrivalled in this size
Large, self draining, cockpit for up to 4 adults
Open plan or with spray shedding foredeck
Removable seats and thwart
Main and jib
Asymmetric or symmetrical spinnaker options
Trapeze option
Outboard motor bracket option
Easy to transport and quick to rig
Pivoting mast heel for easy rigging
Hand holds for easy lifting
Towing eyes
Lifting points
Easy rig control: Jib furler for safety and launch / recovery convenience
Mainsail slab reefing
2-part aluminium mast
External halyards and boom controls for easy maintenance
Durable Dacron sails
User friendly foils: Pivoting centreboard and kick up rudder
Length: 14' 1"
Hull Weight: 309 lbs
Crew: 2 - 5
Hull Construction: Comptec Duarble Polyethylene
Mast: 2 Piece, Aluminum

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By Bill Lee
Updated: November 4, 2001

I like the new breed of sport boats, and the Rodger Martin-designed, Barrett Holby-built Quest 30 illustrates brilliantly why. Skeptics are apt to look at her and see a vessel of confused purpose, but I see a racer up top with real accommodations down below, all in 30 feet and all for around $100,000. As sport boats go, the Quest has a far larger and more usable interior than others of her type. In short, she goes fast and she takes care of her crew.

Speed enhancers include a generous sail plan, an optional carbon mast, an asymmetrical spinnaker on a retractable sprit, a large working cockpit without coamings, a deep bulb keel, and optional side-tank water ballast. Integrated convertible sprits provide great power potential for shorthanded downwind work, and the one on this boat happens to be fully enclosed so as to control the ingress of seawater from leaky bushings or simply from the retraction of a wet spar.

The PHRF rating has ranged between 81 and 87, with the New England number settling in at 84. This rating applies either to a Quest 30 with no water ballast and seven crew, or to one equipped with water ballast and four crew. Significant triumphs in more than a few competitive New England PHRF championships over the course of the past year, not to mention David Scully’s respectable 21-day Atlantic crossing last June in the Europe 1 Star singlehanded race from Plymouth, England, to Newport, Rhode Island, aboard the Quest 30 Hot Glue Gun, point to a solid design with a real appetite for fast passage making.We sailed hull number one out of Newport, equipped with a deep bulb and side water ballast tanks. This type of movable and expendable water ballast should not be confused with the flooding water ballast used aboard the current spate of trailerable pocket cruisers in which the water is flooded into a central-axis cavity low in the bottom of the boat. In those boats, there is no shifting of water from side to side and there is no deep permanent ballast for added righting and security against capsize. By contrast, the Quest is configured in the fashion of a state-of-the-art singlehanded world-girdler, with sophisticated, albeit simple, gravity feed plumbed between the outboard tanks, and substantial fixed ballast at the bottom of a real keel.

There is tankage for 1,000 pounds of water on each side, which creates about 9 1/2 degrees of heel at dockside with one side full. Happily this falls within the 10-degree mark cited in most shorthanded eligibility constructs — a significant safety provision designed to ensure that you can still recover if caught aback with the tanks full on what has become the new leeward side.Seawater is used to fill either the high-side tank on a long weather board or the low-side tank just prior to tacking. Of course the leeward tank can be filled more quickly because the water need not be lifted as far. Our test boat was equipped with an electric pump rated at 3,700 gallons per minute, which would lift 1,000 pounds of seawater into the tank in about two minutes through a 1 1/2-inch hose.

If you prefer to use muscle power in lieu of electricity to fill the tanks, an optional Edson diaphragm pump can be fitted. Once filled, no more pumping is needed. Upwind the cross flow valve is opened about a minute before the tack and the water flows through a three-inch hose into what will be the new high-side tank. If the breeze poops out or you turn downwind, the water is allowed to drain out the transom and the boat is lightened by the equivalent of six fewer crew on the rail.

To date, side water ballast boats have been impractical for closed-course tactical racing; however, for long-distance tilts or passage making there is a real performance benefit combined with a notable reduction of heel angle.The Quest 30 is very beamy at 11’6″ and exceptionally beamy aft. This is a recent trend in sailboats and in many cases I consider it overdone. Certainly in attempts to build a “maximum 30-footer,” beam overall and beam aft tend to grow, but often the same fiberglass and surface area would make a much better 33-footer of more normal proportions, with more waterline length and less of a tendency to drag the transom.

The extreme beam aft does call for a particularly interesting feature, that of twin rudders. The structural implications of truing up two rudders and choreographing the mechanical linkage to a single tiller may be complicated, but you get away with smaller, lower-aspect foils and a more efficient angle of attack from the leeward rudder when the boat is heeled. Construction is of bidirectional glass and balsa core wetted out and cured by way of the resin infusion process. We hear a lot about resin infusion these days and as it grows in popularity and scope I stand solidly behind it. Nonetheless, the ultra-high-tech carbon laminates will continue to come out best I believe through the application of prepregs cured by means of heat and pressure available in a more “conventional” autoclave.

Accommodations include a large double berth in the stern, a smaller double up in the bow, longitudinal settees in the saloon flanking a fold-up dinette, and a working galley composed of a sink and two-burner stove/oven to port plus an icebox and further counter space to starboard. A fully enclosed head is located abaft the galley element on the starboard side. There is six-foot headroom throughout most of the living space, and a shower option available in the head. Our test Quest was fitted with an outboard motor on a bracket off the stern between the two rudders, but a serious cruising type might be served better by the inboard sail drive system available optionally. With 14 gallons of fuel capacity and 20 of fresh water, you are hardly restricted in conventional 30-footer terms when it comes to taking the boat on a distance cruise. And the vessel’s trump card — a high-performance sail plan with an easy-to-manage roller-furled jib — certainly indicates enough horsepower to make quick work of the miles.

So is the Quest 30 a cruising boat or a racing boat? From the perspective of a blue-water cruising couple ready to move aboard and sail off self-contained to faraway places for extended periods of time, perhaps this is not the best choice. But in a very real sense cruising is an art form, and if yours embraces a style of maximum performance with some practical interior accommodations, the Quest deserves your serious consideration.

Quest 30 Specifications:

LOA: 30’0″ (9.1 m.) LWL: 27’6″ (8.4 m.) Beam: 11’6″ (3.5 m.) Draft (deep): 6’11” (2.1 m.) Ballast (fixed): 1,800 lbs. (816 kgs.) Displacement: 5,750 lbs. (2,608 kgs.) Sail area: 660 sq.ft. (61.3 sq.m.) Mast above water: 43’4″ (13.2 m.) Ballast/Disp: .31 Disp/Length: 123 SA/Disp: 32.9 Fuel tankage: 14 gal. (53 ltr.) Water tankage: Water tankage: 20 gal. (76 ltr.) Auxiliary: 1GM 9-hp diesel Cabin headroom: 6’2″ (1.88 m.) Designer: Rodger Martin Base price: $117,000

Quest Yachts 97 Broad Common Rd. Bristol, RI 02809 Phone (401) 253-1711

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Quest 30 / 33 32.5' / 9.91m

An exciting breakaway cruiser/racer with full amenities for family cruising. Features top-quality construction by Holby Marine Co., retractable sprit, and full headroom below decks. Winner of P.H.R.F. New England’s, Buzzard’s Bay Regatta (Class), and Block Island Raceweek (Class). Overall winner of Nantucket 160 & Newport Solo/Twin (Twice!). One boat, “Hot Glue Gun” crossed the Atlantic TWICE in 5 weeks. The Quest 33 features a highly upgraded design based on the Quest 30 cruisable racer, with extended transom, new bow, new deckhouse and single spade rudder. Bermuda One-Two & Figawi Race Overall Winner under her builder, Barrett Holby.

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	32.5' / 9.91m (Q33)
	29.3' / 8.93m (Q33)
	11.33' / 3.45m
	6.9' / 2.10m
	6000# / 2721kg
	694 sq.ft / 64.5 sq.m

The Quest 33 is a superb example of a fast contemporary “club racer” in which a family can comfortably cruise, and win ’round-the-buoys or point-to-point races under PHRF. These boats are Open Designs, and are not based on any restrictive rules! The Quest 33 is a development of the successful Quest 30, designed by us and built by Holby Marine Co.

The Quest 33 offers a finer entry for increased upwind speed, a longer waterline for greater speed all ’round and larger interior and cockpit spaces. The extended, open stern looks good and facilitates swimming and boarding from a dinghy.

This is a proven fast sailplan in PHRF, fast coastal passages & even in the Singlehanded TransAtlantic Race! while for cruising the boat has all the power you need from the mainsail & 100% jib. The ingenious bowsprit shoots out at the pull of a line for setting the asymmetrical spinnaker. Wide traveler, vang and halyard give infinite tuning power to the mainsail.

The deck is securely surrounded by a built-in ‘recessed’ toerail. The cockpit measures a vast 11’6″ long, and works equally well with a wheel or tiller, for cruising or for racing. The jib-furler is recessed under the foredeck and just aft is an anchor locker with a hinged cover . Next is the forehatch on the forward end of the deckhouse. The seahood at the forward end of the main companionway hatch doubles as a line-cover for the controls running aft from the mast to the house-top winches. At the aft end of the cockpit there are two large lockers under the seats plus a large centre locker under the cockpit sole.

The Quest 33 has a very spacious well-ventilated interior, especially roomy for a boat of this size. Start aft, with a palatial aft berth with plenty of airspace over it. It is huge. You can sleep North-South or East-West. Then, at the base of the companionway, there is the galley to port, with 2-burner stove with oven, ice-box & sink with stowage below, & outboard.

To starboard, a complete enclosed head with full headroom & wet gear area. Then, further forward on the starboard side, the navigation area, served from the saloon seat. Now you’re in the saloon proper with comfortable full-sized seat/berths (6’6″ long) with good seat backs and an optional drop-leaf table in between. This is a pleasant area for dining & socializing & a great off-watch area while sailing.

Forward of the saloon, through an arced bulkhead there is an area of storage shelves & lockers on each side and then the forward double berth, once again with much air & light. Plenty of foot-space at the forward end, as there is a separate forepeak/chain locker up there. The Quest 33 can be enjoyed as much for its interior as for its sailing abilities.

All Quest 33s are built using a licensed resin infusion system. This provides the best possible production laminate quality. Vinyl Ester resins assure resistance to blistering & have superior properties to polyesters. One of the Quests built to this system has done a double Transatlantic in 5 weeks under racing conditions. Holby quality is everywhere in evidence.

PERFORMANCE

The Quest 33 is faster than many boats 5 & 10 feet longer! This boat is a PHRF winner! The sailplan is highly refined and easy to use & adapt, and the fin-keel & rudder are the latest, thin, high-aspect foil designs.

The design is based on the same principals as the Open Class ’round the world BOC racers & is unspoiled by slavish following of arcane ‘racing’ rules. These are called ‘handicaps’ for good reason! Yet a family cruising with ease will make very fast trips from port to port, & have the pleasure of gliding by bigger boats during a daysail.

The Quest 33 provides sportboat-like performance in a stable, easy-to-sail boat with generous cruising space in the cockpit and interior.

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