[C320-list] draft...again

[Chris Burti]

To add information to the knowledge base...I personally measured our 2001
#867 at 4' -5" and may have been a bit conservative on the 'extra inch'.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Amirault Family - S&B <
amiraults at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> As I grow older, I tend to believe things that I only think I read
> somewhere
> even if I can no longer identify the reference.
>
> The draft on the C320 went to 4'10'' when the bilge got deeper while the
> cast keel remained the same. Part way through the 2001 run Catalina
> rationalized their manufacture by applying the shorter C310 keel to the
> C320
> hull; both streamlining the manufacturing process all around and returning
> the C320 draft to 4'4''.
>
> I have a 2001 build, hull #797. It is 4'10'' 'cause my pre-purchase
> surveyor
> measured it and reported it as such. When I ordered a folding cradle in
> advance of its delivery I told the maker to take special note that the
> draft
> was 4'10''. They followed current specification from Catalina and made me a
> 4'4'' model anyway. I leave the boat delivery day adventure to your
> imaginations.
>
> Brian Amirault
> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
>



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Chris Burti Farmville, NC