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The boat is 34 feet, 9 inches long, with a 10-foot-7-inch beam. “It’ll mark your position via satellite,” Wallace explained, “(then) you can walk away from the helm, and the boat will ...
The sterndrives or V-drives (which were only used on the first 10 boats) were changed to a traditional shaft system, with the engines being moved mid-ships for better weight distribution and enhanced sea-keeping characteristics. Thus in boats built since the 1980s the aft cabin was an altogether more spacious affair.
Assigned to the Mississippi Squadron, the new gunboat departed Cincinnati 2 July 1863 to patrol the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, upstream. Morgan’s Raiders had captured Union ships John T. McComb and Alice Dean 7 July; Moose and USS Victory responded to the Confederate threat, arriving Brandenburg, Kentucky, 9 July.
As of 20 June 2015, the 68-acre Jeffboat shipyard is owned by American Commercial Lines Inc. (ACL), a company also based in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Mark Knoy is the CEO. In turn, Platinum Equity owns ACL, the largest inland shipbuilder in the United States, building both river barges and ocean barges.
The trade-off for the construction strength is weight; at 19,500 lb (8,800 kg), the Westsail is exceptionally heavy for a 32-foot (9.8 m) boat. This hampers performance, but on the other hand, Westsails are affected relatively less by the large weight of stores and equipment required for long-term cruising (2 tons or more is quite typical).
The manufacturing rights were later purchased by John Althouse with the intention of restarting production. No new boats are currently being manufactured. The yachts varied in length from 26 to 44 feet, [2] and included express, sport fisherman, sedan and dual cabin models on a semi-planing hull. The series was made of welded aluminum.
The Morgan 32 is an American sailboat that was designed by Ted Brewer and Jack Corey and first built in 1980. [1] [2] [3 ... The boat has a draft of 5.33 ft (1.62 m ...
George Hinterhoeller, after some initial reservations about the design, agreed to build the boats, and the first Nonsuch 30 rolled out of his shop in the summer of 1978. [4] Additional models were created in 22, 26, 32, 33, 36 and 45 foot lengths, with the 26 and 30