Review of Buccaneer 28

Basic specs.

The Buccaneer 28 is a trimaran designed by the Australian maritime architect Lock Crowther in the early seventies.

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Hull

Deck plan of Buccaneer 28.

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.
Some boats has a hull made of Plywood.

Rig

Rig of Buccaneer 28 anno 1984. Lock Crowther Buccaneer 28 - TWEETY After 38 Years sailing on lakes in Austria, since 2021 happy sailing the Adriatic See in Croatia. Great regatta and cruising (this season 500 nm till the Island of Vis) boat for lot of FUN.

The Buccaneer 28 is equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

Keel

DaggerBoard aka Sword

The Buccaneer 28 is equipped with a daggerboard keel. A daggerboard is a lifting keel that can be lowered and raised, allowing the boat to enter shallow waters as well.

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

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.