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Schaefer Yachts builds luxury powerboats. Not something we get involved with.
We’ll take a look to see what Swan’s are missing. Thanks for the heads-up.Thanks! We added your information to the Notes section of the Excalibur 36 record. Hope that’s okay.
For this model, Bavaria reports three hull lengths. LOA, LOA excluding bowsprit and hull length (LOD). We only have the ability to report two in our form… LOA and LOD. To include the third, we reported LOA excluding bowsprit in the Notes section of the Bavaria CR 34.
Hope this helps.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
