The Wild Wind 20, also called the Gale Force 20 and Rinker 20, is a recreational keelboat first built in 1982Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, page 146. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. by Gale Force Yachts in Syracuse, Indiana, United States, but it is now out of production. Gale Force was the short-lived sailboat division of powerboat builder Rinkerbuilt Co., now called Rinker Boats and owned by Highwater Marine, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries Inc.
Design The fiberglass hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed stub keel with a lifting keel.
The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settee berths in the main cabin. Cabin headroom is .
The design has a hull speed of .
It has a fractional rig.
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