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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.
The Crawley Edge Boatshed, commonly referred to as the Blue Boat House, [1] is a boathouse located on the Swan River at Crawley in Perth, Western Australia.A well-known landmark, [2] the boatshed was built in the 1930s, and since the 1940s has been owned mainly by the Nattrass family.
A houseboat in Silver Glen Springs, just off Lake George, Florida, US A modern houseboat in Lake Cumberland, near Albany, Kentucky, US A houseboat in Lake Bigeaux, near Henderson, Louisiana, US Houseboating is a very popular recreational activity for groups of people of all ages, aboard houseboats of all varieties ranging from more modest 30-to ...
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 ...
The boat has a draft of 3.67 ft (1.12 m) with the standard keel. [1] The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD6A diesel engine of 13 hp (10 kW) for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 9.2 U.S. gallons (35 L; 7.7 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 17.2 U.S. gallons (65 L; 14.3 imp gal).
C&C Yachts was a builder of high-performance fiberglass monohull sailboats with production facilities in Canada, Germany, and the United States. [1] C&C designed and constructed a full range of production line cruiser-racer boats, as well as custom one-off and short production run racing and cruising boats.
Blue Water Sailing is a magazine about and for blue water sailors. [1] It was started in 1996 [1] by George and Rosa Day, who spent five years sailing their Mason 43 ketch around the world. It is sold in 67 countries. The supplement Multihulls Quarterly is included four times a year.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 diesel engine of 62 hp (46 kW). Later boats produced were powered by a Westerbeke model 4-107 diesel or a Perkins 4-154 diesel. The fuel tank holds 138 U.S. gallons (520 L; 115 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 170 U.S. gallons (640 L; 140 imp gal).