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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 08:43:06 EDT
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:55:10 -0500, you wrote:
>How dangerous/bad/undesirable would a shoal draft boat be for passage making
>and heavy weather? The CSY 44 is one of the boats I am looking closely at,
>and it was made with both a shoal draft (4' 11") and a deep draft (6' 6")
>and I have also seen a couple advertised with a 5' 6" draft. All of these
>boats check out very well in terms of Capsize Screening Value and Roll
>Acceleration, but those calculations don't use draft, they use displacement,
>beam and LWL. I know that righting moment will improve as the ballast gets
>further from the waterline (i.e., deeper), but I don't know how much
>difference it will make in seaworthiness in rough weather. There are a
>couple of really nice shoal draft CSY 44's for sale and I am trying to
>decide whether to look at them or cross them off my list of candidates. I
>definitely plan to cross the Atlantic at some point after we begin cruising,
>so I want to make sure the boat I get is capable. Any thoughts, ideas or
>opinions?
>
The CSY was made with the lower 18" of the keel in concrete which
could be cut off if the shoal draft would be better for the cruising
area (such as the Bahamas or the Chesapeake). Some of them were made
from the beginning with the shoal draft, and they MAY have had
additional ballast added, but I can't be sure about that because
there's no way to tell without taking the boat apart.
AFAIK, the only disadvantage to the shoal draft 44 (which we have) is
that it will make a little more leeway. As Steve notes - there are
quite a few shoal draft CSYs that have circumnavigated. The
walkthroughs that I know about are ALL shoal draft (with one
exception) and almost all of them came originally with the tall mast
which makes them quite a bit more tender.
We have a shoal draft CSY, and I also keep a list of them and records
of what they've done and where they've been, so if you want to write
me off the list and ask about specific boats I can check my records.
I usually put out a list of CSYs for sale a couple of times a year -
there is an email CSY list.
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html
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