Echo 12 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · daggerboard

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

11.83' · 3.61 m

Displ.

140 lbs · 64 kg

First year

1979

The Echo 12 is a quintessential Canadianbuilt sailing dinghy, developed during the fiberglass manufacturing boom of the late 1960s and 1970s. Produced by Skene Boats Ltd. in Gloucester, Ontario, the vessel was engineered to provide a stable, accessible platform for novice sailors, yacht club training programs, and cottagefront recreation. At 12 feet in length, it occupies a strategic middle ground in the smallboat market, offering more buoyancy and cockpit space than a junior trainer like the Optimist, while remaining significantly easier to rig and singlehand than the larger, more technical Albacore—a model for which Skene Boats was also well known.