Next message: Brian and Elaine Timmins: "Re: [world-cruising] Digest Number 374"
> <> wrote:
> > Transom Types is easy...... Reserve Boyancy is the name of the game!
>
> So you suggest a boat with a massive transom containing lots of empty
space?
>
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Well, No. Lets not be extremest here. Nothing taken to extremes is good
for overall usage. What I meant by my comment was, almost any shape (except
cut off, square) stern that has enough reserve boyancy to quickly lift the
stern over following seas. I personally like the double ended approach (yes,
I sent the link to, and own a Landfall 39). My last boat had the (sort of)
long over hang of the CCA designs. (Alberg 30) This is also fine, but taken
to the extreme, a wave could easily break on top of an extra long overhang.
On the other side of the coin, I used to own a Tartan 27 yawl, which has a
short overhang and fairly square stern. I actually got broached in her by
some breakers, knocked down by the following breaking wave and fipped about
140 degrees. It would have gone 360 except the water was only about 25' deep
so my mast stopped the roll and ended up bent (seriously). Several years
later, I went through the same inlet, in similar conditions, in a double
ended 34' cutter. The breaking waves parted around the stern. I didn't even
know I was in the breakers until the foam came by the cockpit. Not even a
hint of a broach.
Regards,
Brian
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