⛵ Sailboat Database

Open sailboat dataset

The whole catalogue as a single file — 977 production sailboats with dimensions, rig, hull, displacement and five computed design ratios. Free, openly licensed, no signup, no API key.

JSON Nested, with licence and attribution embedded. CSV Flat table. Opens in Excel, Numbers, pandas.

Licence

CC BY-SA 4.0. Use it commercially, modify it, redistribute it — provided you credit the source and share derivative databases under the same terms.

Attribution is required because this is a derivative work: Wikidata is CC0, but Wikipedia infobox content is CC-BY-SA and share-alike carries forward. Credit SailboatData, Wikidata and Wikipedia. Photos are hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons and each carries its own licence on the file page in imageCreditPage — check it before reusing an image.

What is in it — and what is not

Every boat here is sourced from Wikidata, enriched from Wikipedia where that filled a gap. 977 boats, 313 with photos.

Used-boat prices are not included. Those come from a third-party advert catalogue whose data is not openly licensed, so it is not ours to redistribute in bulk. The site's estimated price is also excluded — it is a rough model (length + age), and a guess does not belong in a dataset where it could be cited as fact.

Ratios are computed, not sourced. Where the underlying specs are missing the ratio is empty rather than a fabricated number.

Fields

All measurements are imperial: feet, pounds, square feet.

slug, name
Identifier and boat name.
builder, designer
Manufacturer and naval architect, where known.
yearFirstBuilt, yearLastBuilt
Production years.
hullType, rigType, construction, country
Keel/hull type, rig, hull material, country of origin.
loaFt, lwlFt, beamFt, draftFt
Length overall, waterline length, beam, maximum draft — feet.
displacementLb, ballastLb
Displacement and ballast — pounds.
sailAreaSqFt
Reported sail area — square feet.
saDisp, balDispPct, dispLen, comfortRatio, capsizeScreening
Computed design ratios. Empty when the source specs needed are missing — never a guess.
imageUrl, imageCreditPage, imageWidth, imageHeight
Wikimedia Commons photo, its file page (credit), and real pixel dimensions.
sourceWikidata, sourceWikipedia
Per-boat provenance URLs.

Citing this

SailboatData — Open Sailboat Dataset (v1).
https://sailboat-database.com/data — CC BY-SA 4.0.
Derived from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA).