Production Boat Offshore - Summary ?

[Grona Hissen]

To Barnakiel.
If you chose something else than a archipelago sailer, you will find ther freeboard to be a lot higher. Nobody want's splashing water arround the cockpit area. There are sailboats that have higher keel weight ratio. The problem I have is to find them.

Better safe than sorry.

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by Grona Hissen

To Barnakiel.
If you chose something else than a archipelago sailer, you will find ther freeboard to be a lot higher. Nobody want's splashing water arround the cockpit area. There are sailboats that have higher keel weight ratio. The problem I have is to find them.

Better safe than sorry.

Why do you think the water finds its way over the top end? Most of the time it is a mysterious leak that actually comes from a seacock, a stern gland, or a chain locker, (etc).!

Ballast ration on older, 'classic' designs can be at times surprisingly low (sic!), no wonder - when you think about how heavy their hulls can be. Most of the time, the ballast ratio counts little, unless a design is seriously flawed or else when the boat is an out-and-out racer that needs excessive ballast ratio to be able to carry excessive SA (and so achieve excessive speeds !).

Bueno, all boats are equal, just some are obviously better.

;-)
b.