RS VENTURE – STABILITY, SPACE AND SPARKLING PERFORMANCE
A benchmark in our adventure and training range, the RS Venture is an award-winning dinghy that redefines versatility in sailing. Designed for families, explorers, and training programs alike, the RS Venture features a massive self-draining cockpit that comfortably carries up to eight sailors.
Experience responsive handling and impressive performance that make every outing exciting, while a wide range of customisation options ensures the boat can be tailored to your needs. Choose between a standard (S) or ballasted (SE) centreboard with the RS Venture. Or opt for the lifting keel version (see RS Venture Connect) for even greater flexibility.
With exceptional stability, generous storage, and space for an outboard motor, the RS Venture is perfectly suited for estuaries, lakes and coastal adventures. Wherever you sail, adventure awaits!
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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
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2013 Sailing World
Dinghy of the Year
WHAT THE SAILORS ARE SAYING…
Remarkable stability and a cockpit genuinely large enough to carry an instructor and six pupils make the Venture stand out. We are very impressed.
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.
RS is renowned for being meticulous with its product development, and the Venture is Exhibit A. Every component was high quality and purposeful.
…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.
GALLERY
FEATURES
Versatile
- Highly stable training boat
- Perfect for weekend adventures with family and friends
- Can be left on a mooring
- Rewarding performance – secure sailing
- Outboard motor option for ultimate versatility
- Choose from asymmetric or symmetric spinnaker options
Space
- Huge capacity for multiple crew (640kg max)
- Mast well forward and optional move-able thwart provide huge, flexible cockpit space
- Strut vang above the boom gives space and safety for the crew
- Comfortable and spacious for family cruising
Stability & Safety
- Exceptionally stable hull
- Low freeboard to assist capsize recovery and safety
- Self draining the cockpit
- Preventing inversions: foam inside the mast and optional mast head float
- Righting lines
- Optional ballasted centreboard for even greater stability
Storage
- Multiple stowage options – under side seats and foredeck
Robust
- Durable composite GRP hull construction
- Thick woven GRP skins and 3mm coremat construction, under a double layered gelcoat means that the RS Venture will stand up to intense use
- Optional rubber gunwale fendering
- Optional aluminium keelband on hull bilge rails – protection when grounding – minimum maintenance
Rig & Sail Configuration options
- Dacron mainsail (upgrade to Mylar available)
- Furling jib (standard)
- Asymmetric gennaker
- Trapeze pack
RS Venture Options and Accessories
- Ballasted centreboard
- Thwart option (factory fitted)
- Rear stowage locker (factory fitted)
- Rubber gunwhale protection (factory fitted)
- Alloy keel band protection (factory fitted)
- Mylar or Dacron mainsail fabric
- Gennaker / asymmetric spinnaker and equipment
- Symmetrical spinnaker and equipment
- Mast head float
- Transom boarding ladder
- Outboard motor transom wear pads
- Stowage bag – under foredeck
- Anchor pack
- Trapeze pack
- Cockpit water bottles – pair – fitted
- Fenders
- Top cover – breathable
- Launching trolley
- Road trailer combi base
- Antifoul below waterline
SPECIFICATION
Standard
Optional
| RS Venture S | RS Venture SE | ||
| Designer | Phil Morrison/RS Sailing | | |
| Length | 4.9m (16'1") | | |
| Beam | 2.0m (6'6") | | |
| Centreboard | GRP | | |
| Centreboard – ballasted | Steel – 60kg | |
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| Air draft (mast above water) | 7m (23'0") | | |
| Weight (hull) | 195kg (430lbs) | | |
| Mainsail – Dacron with reefing system | 11.0m² (118.4ft²) | | |
| Mainsail – Mylar Upgrade | 11.0m² (118.4ft²) | | |
| Jib – Dacron | 3.8m² (40.9ft²) | | |
| Jib furling system | | |
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| Asymmetric Gennaker | 14m² (150.7ft²) | | |
| Mast – aluminium alloy | | |
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| Boom – aluminium alloy | With single-line reefing system | | |
| Lifting rudder | Plus stock plus tiller plus extension | | |
| Centre-mainsheet arrangement | | |
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| Rubber gunwhale protection | Factory fitted | | |
| Alloy keel band protection | Factory fitted | | |
| Mast head float | | |
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| Trapeze Pack | | |
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| Transom boarding ladder | | |
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| Outboard motor transom wear pads | | |
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| Anchor pack | Includes ancor, warp, chain, bag | | |
| Fenders | | |
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| Top cover | Breathable polycotton | | |
| Road trailer combi base | | |
