The Swan 601 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a one-design racer-cruiser and first built in 2004.[1][2]
The design was a follow-on to the Swan 45's success as a one-design and an attempt to create a one-design racing class for bigger boats. The design was not a success commercially and the one-design races never had enough boats entered to keep it going as a class. Writer Louay Habib noted, "there were too many compromises in the design to keep either cruisers or racers happy. It turned out to be neither competitive in handicap racing nor fun to cruise, and very few were sold."[3][4]
Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, starting in 2004, with six boats sold by 2005, but it is now out of production.