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From: Mike Batchelor (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 00:56:45 EDT
OK, thanks. That helps a lot. Your examples couldn't be clearer. A
quick search on Yachtworld.com turns up stern views of the Tartan 27
and the Alberg 30.
Tartan 27: http://tinyurl.com/2xo6v
Alberg 30: http://tinyurl.com/2q8o3
That Tartan looks really fat by comparison.
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:37:18 -0400, Brian and Elaine Timmins
<> wrote:
> 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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