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A bracket is standard equipment and the boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor of 2 hp (1 kW) for docking and maneuvering. [1] [7] The design has sleeping accommodation for two people, with two 78 in (200 cm) bunks in the cabin bow. The cabin has 45 in (110 cm) of headroom and the companionway hatch folds into a small table.
Norman boats are small fiberglass cabin cruisers built in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, by Norman Cruisers Limited of Shaw and Crompton in Greater Manchester, England. Norman Boats were started in 1959 by Ernie Wheeldon. The business started in Shaw Lancs, then moved to Isherwood Street in Heywood Lancs, then back to a new site in Shaw. Other ...
A cabin cruiser is a type of power boat that provides accommodation for its crew and passengers inside the structure of the craft. A cabin cruiser usually ranges in size from 7.6 to 13.7 m (25 to 45 ft) in length, with larger pleasure craft usually considered yachts .
The yard designed and built boats for racing and leisure, including rowing boats, dinghies, motor launches and small cabin cruisers. [1] It built more than 1,000 yachts. [ 3 ] The boat yard became famous internationally for its elegant and high-quality boats built by skilled craftsmen, shipwrights, engineers, joiners and riggers.
Planing Cruiser: Nautor 39: 1977–1978 Sparkman & Stephens 4 [89] Motorsailer Nautor 40: 1972 Don Shead Planing Cabin Cruiser Nautor 43: 1976 – Sparkman & Stephens 24 [90] Motorsailer Nautor 47: 1971–1972 Don Shead 7 [91] Planing Cabin Cruiser Nautor 50: 1976–1978 Sparkman & Stephens 9 [92] Motorsailer
In 1954 George Garcia, owner of Falls City Flying Service, introduced the ‘Marinette’ which was an aluminum houseboat initially built as a twin-hulled cruiser. Choosing to use an aluminum-magnesium alloy, whereas previous attempts at an aluminum watercraft had mainly involved small row boats made of a copper-aluminum alloy , the same ...
Over the years of trading, Microplus / Microplas produced a wide range of boats, from small cabin cruisers, through to small fishing boats and a speedboat. Generally the model name has a direct correlation with the overall length of the completed moulding. [3]
Cabin headroom is 54 in (137 cm). In the late 1970s a factory option allowed installation of a fourth cabin berth in place of the galley [1] [4] For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker. [1] The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 294 and a hull speed of 5.3 kn (9.8 km/h). [4]