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Originally Posted by Britannia
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.
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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..?