Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A 2016 review in Blue Water Boats described the design, "If you can get over the lack of deck space and finding place to stow your tender, you’ll find a boat that’s essentially solid, seaworthy and with the interior space of a boat 6 feet longer. She’s large enough to live in, and being so small she’s incredibly easy to handle.
Swan 48-3 Frers showing the transom. The Swan 48-3 Frers is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim.It has a fractional sloop rig, with a bowsprit, a plumb stem, a reverse transom with a drop-down tailgate swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by dual wheels and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb, deep draft racing keel or ...
The one obvious thing the Vega lacks, in comparison with more modern designs, is space down below." [13] A review in Blue Water Boats concluded, "By all accounts the Vega under sail handles easily and is a well balanced creature with no weather helm. Despite her shallow draft she is reported to point well to windward and while tender initially ...
In a 2020 review in Blue Water Sailing, Sandy Parks wrote, " The 32RK has one signature design feature that makes it uniquely suitable for cruising in areas with a lot of shallow water and for sailors who want to trailer their boats. The RK in its name stands for 'retracting keel' which enables you to lower the keel to whatever depth you want ...
A review in Blue Water Boats noted, "the Nor'Sea 27 is a small but rugged pocket-cruiser with live-aboard comfort and seaworthiness at the heart of her design. Designer Lyle Hess was approached with the challenging brief to design a heavy weather, long distance cruiser which could be legally trailerable.
In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "the Cal people asked yacht designer C. Raymond Hunt Associates to come up with "a true blue-water sailboat that would be physically and legally trailerable without special permits." The result was a choice of drafts: 4' 3" for the blue-water-customer contingent, or 3' 4" for the trailer boat folks.
The Blue Water 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Thomas C. Gillmer as a blue water cruiser and first built in 1961. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The design was developed into the Passage 24 in 1979, using a new coach house on the existing hull design.
A review in Blue Water Boats, described the design as, "beautiful, strong, and capable". The review went on to say, "unsurprisingly for a Mohrschladt design, the Orion 27 has conservative lines. Under the waterline is a long keel with a forefoot cutaway to improve nimbleness and reduce wetted area.