Viola 25-foot Sharpie
Description
The Viola 25 is a 25-foot sharpie designed by Jim Michalak, a popular amateur boat designer known for simple, affordable, plywood-based plans aimed at home builders. It is part of Michalak's line of practical sharpie and skiff-style sailboats, emphasizing ease of construction, shallow draft, and decent sailing performance for coastal, inland, or protected waters. Like most Michalak designs, it is offered as plans (available through Duckworks or similar sources), with no factory production. Builders typically use stitch-and-glue or plywood/epoxy methods, making it accessible for first-time or experienced amateur builders. Exact numbers built are not tracked, but Michalak designs in this size range have dozens of completed examples documented in boatbuilding communities.
Construction Details
| Designer | Jim Michalak |
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| Builder | Home Built |
| Length | 25.000 ft |
| LOA | 25.000 ft |
| Beam | 6.500 ft |
| Displacement | 1500 lb |
| Max Draft | 3.000 ft |
| Min Draft | 0.250 ft |
| Year Built | 2017 |
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Documents
Sails
Viola 25-foot Sharpie - GAFF MAIN
| Luff | 9 ft - (2743 mm) |
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| Foot | 14.5 ft - (4420 mm) |
| Leech | 21.25 ft - (6477 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 84.6 ° |
| Diag (clew/throat) | 16.33 ft - (4977 mm) |
| Head | 13.75 ft - (4191 mm) |
| Area | * 177.22 ft² |
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Viola 25-foot Sharpie - LEG-O-MUTTON
| Luff | 13 ft - (3962 mm) |
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| Foot | 7 ft - (2134 mm) |
| Leech | * 13.9 ft - (4237 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 83.06 ° |
| Diag (clew/head) | 14 ft - (4267 mm) |
| Head (Inches) | 2 |
| Area | * 46.1 ft² |
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Disclaimer. Boats are not all the same -- even when produced in the same factory of the same model. Sailrite does its best to publish accurate dimensions, but we often find it worthwhile to have our customers measure their boats carefully before we produce kits for them. You should take the same precautions, especially when the data is not from Sailrite. The information on this site is not guaranteed to be accurate. Sailrite offers this content as a service to our community, but takes no responsibility for the reliability of the data provided.
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