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The big roomy cockpit is ideal for family outings with comfortable seats inboard and wide coamings outboard to suit your individual sailing style. The Centerboard model features a powerful sailplan, balanced by the stable hull form and fiberglass centerboard and rudder. This provides excellent performance and sure, predictable handling in a broad range of conditions. Adjustable hiking straps, tiller extension, adjustable outhaul, and sheet bag are all standard equipment. Like every Catalina, the Catalina 16.5 is built with a one piece hand laminated deck. The hull is also hand laid for strength and light weight. Both models come with self-bailing cockpits, a large forepeak storage compartment with a watertight hatch. Also included is anodized mast and boom with adjustable outhaul, stainless steel standing rigging, complete Dacron sails and running rigging.
Equipment: Very nice clean boat with Colorful Sails, Galvanized Trailer, smooth blades. Hull had paint and it has been sanded down to the barrier coat for racing.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
A fin keel version was introduced a year later.
Later renamed CATALINA 16.5.
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