Cabot 36
Cutter · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1974
A cutter-rigged cruiser with a shallow 1.45-metre draft, often sold as a bare hull for custom interior finishing
Designed by Ted Brewer, Robert Walstrom & Edward S. Brewer, built by Cabotcraft Industries.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Fin With Rudder On Skeg
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Character
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Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 33 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.
1.79 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
304 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
14.9 — modest power for her weight; easygoing rather than lively, and happier with a breeze.
31% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
- Heavier than ~80% of boats her size on file
- Draws less than ~85% of boats her size on file
Compared with 2967 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
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