Friday 31 March 2017
Design 2084 Amazon
Amazon was built by the famous Camper & Nicholsons, Ltd. shipyard of Southampton, England. The year was 1971. She is designed as an I.O.R. racing yacht but her use of steel as a construction material makes her a heavy boat. The use of steel is somewhat unusually for the period (and what was in vogue at the time) but her resultant rating should have leveled the playing field somewhat. I would assume steel was used for cost savings.
Note her displacement of 105,000 lbs as listed below versus other 72-73'ers such as Baruna (built of wood) at 88,000 lbs and Kialoa II (built of aluminum) at 94,000 lbs.
The positive result of this big volume is an extremely commodious and comfortable boat.
Here are the plans.
The Lines are just so nice I thought I would include them. I will draw your attention to how nicely balanced the shape looks fore and aft.
LOA 73'-1"
LWL 57'-0"
Beam 18'-0"
Draft 10'-6"
Displacement 105,132 lbs
Ballast 35,000 lbs
Sail Area 2,430 sq ft
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