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Old 03-12-2016, 04:01 AM   #36
Peter B
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City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by Britannia View Post
Just to be clear - displacement is the same as weight. As Archimedes pointed out, a floating vessel displaces a weight of water equal to its own weight. I see "half load" quoted a number of times. I'm not sure if that means tanks half full? On my boat the combined weight of full tanks of fuel and water total over 13,500 lb.
Ah...are you sure about that Britt. By my reckoning, (@ 2.2 pounds per kg, your boat would only weight about 6140kg = 6.140 tonne, and my 34ft CHB weights about 8.5 tonne, and your vessel is A Kadey Krogen 54, is she not..? I would say she weighs about 28-30 tonne, i.e. about 60,000 lbs

Sorry, my bad, I see you were just talking about the fuel and water weight - that does feel much more correct...but how close was I in the overall boat weight estimate anyway, just out of interest..?
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