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Date Posted: 19:18:28 08/23/08 Sat
Author: Neil (back to the drawing board)
Subject: Re: Neil's Boat
In reply to: Norwolf 's message, "Re: Neil's Boat" on 11:20:14 08/22/08 Fri

Unfortunately I don't have time to get up to the bay right now, but I am keeping an eye out in SoCal. I did see an AMAZING example of a Dolphin in Santa Barbara, but unfortunately they want $40,000(!) for it...reduced from 50...

One question I have is to do with displacement and extended use/living aboard. A lot of sub-25 foot boats have a good SA/D ratio - often well above 17 (dolphins, lancer 25s, olson 25s, etc) but tend to have pretty low actual displacement.

I have read that you can rapidly get into trouble overloading a boat, so what is a good limit (%-wise) for gear and crew over the boat's displacement and what weight should I allow in terms of supplies for 2 people?

As a lot of the smaller boats rely on outboards, it seems that I would loose out on the gain I would otherwise have from yanking the motor.

Another thought: When yanking an inboard motor should a proportion of that weight be added as ballast when not loading up with supplies, or do you just let the boat ride higher and thus benefit from a slight increase in SA/D?

I finally got to take a look at the Triton. It was certainly originally built like a tank. Unfortunately it was way more rundown than I had hoped - standing water and oil in the bilge, moldy cabin and delamination in the ply in the interior, etc. The mast step was in BAD shape (though the beam below looked fine) and there was a little corrosion visible on the outside of the mast base. Most of the through-deck fittings were just backed by small washers apart from a couple with ply backing plates and the stanchions were not sound. I think (with my limited knowledge) that it is probably out of contention. I would like to learn about my (future) boat by working on it but I would like to find something I feel is structurally sound enough to trust sailing from day 1.

For comparison I took a look at an Ericson 27 that was about 10 years younger. It was a whole different story (shame I am not interested in it...) and by selling the extremely good condition yanmar diesel and radar it would probably actually cost considerably less than the Triton!

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