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Trojan by 1968 had become one of the largest producers of inboard motor boats in the world, employing over 700 people, most on their 26-acre site in a 142,000 square foot factory and adjacent truck depot at 167 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1966 Trojan acquired the Shepherd Boat Company, Canada, manufacturer of up to 50-foot ...
These boats are also known as "megayachts", "gigayachts" and even "terayachts", usually depending on length. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been generally accepted by naval architects and industry executives that superyachts range from 37 m (≈120 ft) to 60 m (≈200 ft), while those over 60 m are known as megayachts and boats over 90 m (≈300 ft) have ...
The boat has a double spreader sloop rig with an extruded aluminum mast and boom. [11] The standing rigging is wire, and the running rigging includes internal main and genoa halyards , two genoa sheets , a mainsheet , a boom outhaul and topping lift, a four-part boom vang and preventer, and two flag and burgee halyards.
Hinckley Yachts, founded in 1928, manufactures, services and sells luxury sail and powerboats.The company is based in Maine, United States.The company has developed yacht technologies including JetStick and Dual Guard composite material, and was an early developer of the fiberglass hull.
33.50 m (110 ft) Gebruder de Vries Scheepsbouw: Henri Willem de Voogt: 1939: Auxiliary steel ketch Doha 2006: 33.50 m (110 ft) Multiplast: Gilles Ollier: 2000: Ocean racing carbonfiber catamaran, originally Club Med: Heritage M: 33.50 m (110 ft) Perini Navi: 2000: Steel sloop, originally Heritage: Mousetrap: 33.50 m (110 ft) JFA: VPLP: 2012
The CS 50 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass.It has a masthead sloop rig or can be optionally cutter rigged. It fits an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel, displaces 27,557 lb (12,500 kg) and carries 12,125 lb (5,500 kg) of lead ballast.
Santa Cruz boats are made to order so the roughly $600,000 base price of a Santa Cruz 52 can climb to well over $1 million; even ten-year-old Santa Cruz 52's are fetching a half million dollars. The newer Santa Cruz 53 with a base price of about $850,000 is substantially a more luxiourious and heavier adaptation of the 52.
The first yacht to feature the FDHF hull was Heesen Yachts’ 65-metre (213 ft) Galactica Star, which was launched in 2013 to wide acclaim. Several other Heesen builds have since featured the FDHF hull, including the 55-metre (180 ft) Azamanta, delivered in 2015, which was the first steel-hulled FDHF yacht over 50 metres in length.