[1][2] The design was built by Halman Manufacturing in Beamsville, Ontario, Canada, but it is now out of production.

[1][3][2][4] The Horizon is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.

It features a spooned raked stem, a very rounded and bulbous transom, a skeg-mounted rudder, with a portion protruding around the transom, controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.

[1][2] The boat has a draft of 4.00 ft (1.22 m) with the standard fin keel.

It was factory-fitted with a Swedish Volvo diesel engine of 9 hp (7 kW).