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Review of Colvic Watson 34


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Colvic Watson 34 aka CW 34 is a motorsailer. The Colvic Watson 34 is built by the British yard Colvic Craft.

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Hull

Both the hull and the deck is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.


Interior

The boat is equipped with 3 cabins and 6 berths.


Rig

The Colvic Watson 34 is equipped with a ketch rig. A ketch rig is generally considered easier to handle, because the sails are smaller, and because it can sail on most points to the wind with one sail completely taken down for repair or while reefing. The sail configuration of a ketch allows for better comfort and stability when sailing downwind or on a broad reach.


Keel

Full keel

The Colvic Watson 34 is equipped with a long keel. A full keel provide a better directional stability than a similar boat with a fin keel; on the other hand, better directional stability means also that the boat is more difficult to handle in a harbour with less space.

The boat can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.70 - 1.80 meter (5.58 - 5.88 ft) dependent on the load.


Engine

Colvic Watson 34 may be equipped with an inboard Ford Lehman diesel engine

The transmission is a shaft drive. A shaft drive will in the long run require less maintenance than other types of drive e.g. a sail drive.


Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

Sorry, we do not have sufficient statistical information available for this boat to provide a significant reliable analysis.

Maintenance

Rig

If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.



Guiding dimensions of running rig
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 10.4 m(34.1 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Genoa sheet10.4 m(34.1 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Mainsheet 26.0 m(85.3 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Spinnaker sheet22.9 m(75.1 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)

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