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To reduce the cost of owning a boat, consider buying a used boat in good condition. For instance, a new current-year Tahoe T16 bowrider is about $27,000. The same model a few years older is about ...
The boat has a draft of 4.00 ft (1.22 m) with the standard keel and 3.00 ft (0.91 m) with the optional shoal draft wing keel. [ 1 ] The boat was originally fitted with an outboard motor well, but some later ones were equipped with inboard Universal Atomic 4 gasoline or Universal diesel engines .
The process of determining the PHRF for an individual boat begins with the regional PHRF rating, then adjustments are made for the individual attributes of the boat such as: modifications to the rig, the size of the largest foresail (jib or genoa), the size of the spinnakers, type of keel (full, fin, wing etc.), the number of blades on the propeller, and the style of the propeller (fixed ...
Good Old Boat magazine: Volume 4, Number 1, January/February 2001. Sail magazine, August 2004, pages 54–57. Heart of GLASS: Fiberglass Boats And The Men Who Made Them by Daniel Spurr, pages 244–250. The World's Best Sailboats Volume II, by Ferenc Máté. Albatross Publishing House, 2003. Best Boats to Build or Buy, by Ferenc Máté ...
Once you buy a boat, the decision isn’t easy to reverse. As if to add insult to injury, boats are notoriously difficult to get rid of. According to Yacht World, ...
A polar diagram, or polar plot, is a graph that shows a sailboat's potential speed over a range of wind speeds and relative wind angles. [1] It normally consists of the right side of a line chart with the radius representing the yacht speed and the angle representing the wind direction blowing from top to bottom.
Bayliner operated a sailboat division from 1970 until 1984. The Buccaneer Division of Bayliner produced sailboats under the brand names Buccaneer Yachts and United Sailing Yachts (US Yachts). The boats sold well though the 1973 oil crisis period, but the division was sold off to Pearson Yachts in 1984.
In a 2003 review of the Precision 15 K by naval architect Robert Perry, he wrote, "the target market for this boat could be family day-sailing, but the 15 would also make a very nice trainer. The hull is broad enough to provide stability without acrobatics. At 600 pounds the boat is also light enough to be fast and responsive.