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My two cents… This seems a little subjective. If you were happy with your old engines power, pushing the boat against current, wind, waves, whatever, I would think you’d be satisfied with the 14.9 hp. If there were times you wished you had a more powerful engine, maybe now is the time to get one?
Stiffness refers to a boat’s ability to resist healing. The opposite would be tenderness. The more ballast, as a precent of the displacement, the better the boat stands up to the wind. Keep in mind, the location of the ballast can also have an impact on stiffness.
Hope this helps.
I’m not sure what TXU is. It would seem to me that the make is a Santana 20. The builder is W.D. Schock. The MIC for WD Schock is WDS.
Have you tried reaching out to the Santana 20 Class association? There must be someone there who can help you (you might have to join). Their URL is: https://www.s20.org/
Hope this helps.Hi Adam, Thanks for your post. I’ve added a comment in the Notes section of the Hunter 356 to indicate the boat was sold in the UK as the Hunter Legend 356, and available with twin bilge keels.
Best,
BruceHave you tried contacting Julian Everitt? His Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/julian.everitt
Actually, Comar can be found here: https://sailboatdata.com/builder/comar-yachts.
Thanks. The problem is in the past LOA often did not include rail overhangs. Today LOA typically includes them and LOD is just the hull.
We update our records when we find the change as we now have with both the Oceanis 35.1 and Hanse 348.
Thanks again for the heads-up.
We are not sailmakers but our understanding is that it is not a good idea to do that. You’ll be cutting a sail designed to hoist straight up a mast to one designed to hoist at the angle of your forestay. Cutting a main down like that, and getting the shape to work requires a great deal more work than you might expect. And by the time you’re done, it could will result in a sail where the shape and depth are still wrong. All without saving as much money as you might think.
That said, our advice is to ask a pro.
At one time LOA and LOD were interchangeable. This is from Ted Brewer’s website:
Different designers and builders have different ways of expressing Length. Length On Deck (LOD) is the true length, omitting rail overhangs, and is the honest way to describe the length of a boat. More usually, you will see it as Length Over All (LOA) which may be the LOD if the builder is honest but often includes rail overhangs, anchor sprits, bowsprits and even boomkins if the builder is trying to sell a “larger” boat.
Over the past 20 years or so, it has become commonplace for LOA to include bowsprits, etc. and for builders to report a separate LOD.
This seems to have happened with regard to the Catalina 320. An early (1998) brochure lists the LOA as 32’6″.
All this said, and in order to avoid further confusion, we have updated the records and have included LOD separately in the Notes section.
Thanks for the heads-up!
And of course… https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/ospray-oday
Apologies for the delayed response. We now have the Sunbeam 29 and the C-yacht 1040 in our database. We already had the Hanse 345 which you can find here: https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hanse-345.
Still working on the Bruce Robert’s Offshore 38. We don’t see it mentioned on Bruce Roberts’ site so we’ll have to find it another way (we don’t use specs from For Sale listings as they tend to vary too much).
Thanks for reaching out and letting us know about these boats!
Hello all,
To begin, please know we have input everyone of our ~8,800 boats into our database by hand. One boat at a time. We’ve been at it for almost 20 years now. We have not taken any other person’s work by scraping servers or accessing any other database. Trust us, we know how difficult and time consuming building a database like this can be.
That said… We have not set up API access to our database yet. It could happen later this year though. Full disclosure… our intension will be to charge for that access. If you have a specific project like a membership application for a club, you are of course, welcome to use the information on our site to manually build your database. If you want to save time and electronically auto-populate your application by accessing our servers, we do not think it unreasonable to ask for a small fee for easy access to, and retrieval of, our 20 years of work.
Something like creating a database of all boats with a SA/D between 18-21 (1,732 records including boats between 12’ to over 80’, built beginning in the late 1800’s through today), sounds more like a commercial use project to us. We are all for people starting businesses. But again, we feel it is reasonable to charge for access to information we have literally spent decades compiling. Especially if in doing so, that access makes your business better.
And don’t forget, there’s always the option of using Sailboatdata.com as a reference tool. You might like to know we are on the verge of launching a new updated site. Included will be the option to register and create a “Favorites” page, allowing users to save a specific group of boats for easy, personal access.
One last note, responding to a comment above, it is unlikely we will be adding information on how a keel is attached. Sorry. We do however, include ballast material on a record when we find it. If ballast material is not stated on a boat record, it’s because we did not find that information reported when we created the record.
Hope all this helps.
Thanks for your post. One small correction, the SA/D of 16.09 is based on the information we found on the rig measurements for the Ballad so it’s based on 100% fore triangle.
Some good news… We are VERY close to launching a new, upgraded site. Included will be a calculator where a user will be able to input changes in sail area (or displacement, ballast, etc.) to see how the changes effect the performance ratios.
