The Nacra 5.2 is an American catamaran sailing dinghy that was designed by Tom Roland as a one-design racer and first built in 1975.
It has a fractional sloop rig with a rotating mast, anodized aluminum spars and nine full mainsail sail battens.
[1][3] The boat has a draft of 2.50 ft (0.76 m) with the dual daggerboards extended and 6 in (15 cm) with them retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.
The design includes on-water adjustment controls for the shroud tensions, outhaul, jib luff and mainsail downhaul.
[3] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "the hulls are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top to create extra buoyancy ...