Review of Princess 37 V-Hull

Basic specs.

The Princess 37 V-Hull is a motorboat designed in the mid seventies.

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Hull

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.

Engine

The Princess 37 V-Hull has been equipped with different engine alternatives.

Alternative 1:

The boat may be equipped with dual inboard Volvo Penta TAMD 60B diesel engines at 235 hp (175 kW).

Alternative 2:

The boat may be equipped with dual inboard Ford Mermaid diesel engines at 180 hp (134 kW).

Alternative 3:

Princess 37 V-Hull may be equipped with dual inboard Ford Mermaid diesel engines at 250 hp (186 kW).

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.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Princess 37 V-Hull is 2.85.

Compared with other similar motor boats it is more spacy than 82% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more spacy hull design.

Curiosities

Powerboat?

In Denmark, you are required to have achieved a 'powerboat driving license' in order to sail a powerboat.
In this context a boat is considered a powerboat if:

Danish definition of a powerboat

According to this definition this boat is categorized as a Powerboat.

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.