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The RS Venture is a remarkably stable and dependable boat – perfect as a family sailing dinghy, teaching beginners, taking children for a joyride or cruising around the coast.
The RS Venture’s modern good looks combine with rewarding handling and highly capable sailing performance and she has been winning friends since the moment we launched her.
The ultra-stable and spacious RS Venture has a host of options allowing customisation for the needs for a variety of sailors. This versatile family dinghy can be rigged with either asymmetric or conventional spinnaker and has options such as a ballasted centreboard, stowage solutions, extra seating, trapeze kits and outboard brackets to name but a few. So, if you’re looking for a family sailing dinghy or a large capacity training boat, the RS Venture is sure to meet your needs.
Despite being one of our newest additions to the range, the RS Venture is rapidly gaining fans across as the new favourite for families, schools, sailing clubs and holiday companies.
“Remarkable stability and a cockpit genuinely large enough to carry an instructor and six pupils make the Venture stand out. We are very impressed.”
Ben Willows – UKSA
Looking to buy an RS Venture? Find out more about the RS Venture in the following pages or look for used RSVentures for sale in our used boats section.
| Standard Optional | RS Venture | Club | Sport |
| Designers | Phil Morrison / RS Sailing | ||
| Length | 4.9m (16'4") | ||
| Beam | 2m (6'8") | ||
| Draft | 1.1m (3'9") | ||
| Air draft (mast above water) | 7m (23') | ||
| Weight (hull) | 198kg (436 lbs) | ||
| Mainsail - Dacron - with reefing system | 11m² (118sqft) reefs to 9.1m² (98sqft) | ||
| Mainsail - Mylar - with reefing system | 11m² (118sqft) reefs to 9.1m² (98sqft) | ||
| Jib - Dacron | 3.8m² (41sqft) | ||
| Jib Furling system | |||
| Asymmetric Spinnaker | 14m² (150sqft) | ||
| Conventional Spinnaker (in lieu of asymmetric) | Symmetric 10.5m² (113sqft) | ||
| Mast - aluminium alloy | |||
| Boom - aluminium alloy | With single line reefing system | ||
| Pivoting GRP centreboard | |||
| Ballasted centreboard | 60kg | ||
| Lifting rudder | + stock + tiller + extension | ||
| Centre-mainsheet arrangement | |||
| Side seats | |||
| Padded toe straps | |||
| Thwart | Factory fitted | ||
| Rear stowage locker | Factory fitted | ||
| Rubber gunwhale protection | Factory fitted | ||
| Alloy keel band protection | Factory fitted | ||
| Mast head float | |||
| Transom boarding ladder | |||
| Outboard motor transom wear pads | |||
| Stowage bag | Under foredeck | ||
| Anchor pack | Includes: anchor, warp, chain, bag | ||
| Trapeze pack | |||
| Cockpit water bottles | pair, fitted | ||
| Fenders | |||
| Top cover | Breathable polycotton | ||
| Under cover | |||
| Launching trolley | |||
| Road trailer combi base | |||
| Antifoul | below waterline |
"For private buyers looking for the perfect modern utility dinghy with a great turn of speed and excellent stability the RS Venture can’t be beaten."
Andi Robertson Yachting Life
"Remarkable stability and a cockpit genuinely large enough to carry an instructor and six pupils make the Venture stand out. We are very impressed."
Ben Willows UKSA
"It´s great! Spacious, good looking, sails well, easy to reef! Being able to get 8 persons in is a real plus for us as well."
Ian Aldridge Minorca Sailing
"…a delightfully stable boat which will sit nicely at a mooring...on the launching trolley she was relatively easy to move around the slip
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Andi Robertson Yachting Life
"The Venture is a people carrier with the potential to carry more than its dinghy rivals"
Yachts and Yachting
"…it is simply a great family dinghy for mum, dad, the kids, dogs and friends to go exploring together. For those who have a holiday cottage on the water then the Venture is the perfect accessory"
Andi Robertson Yachting Life
"I have just run an RYA Instructor course in them and I think the Ventures were great - everything I would want from a training boat! They were really fun to race as well, felt very balanced and trucked upwind."
Andy Kerr RYA Dinghy Sailing Coach Assessor
"The Venture has attractive lines with proportionally low freeboard tapering back to a stylish transom. We were impressed by the way the RS Venture fulfilled the role of a multi-crew carrying teaching boat without being clunky or ugly."
Yachts and Yachting
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