Review of Sea Ray Pachanga 32

Basic specs.

The Sea Ray Pachanga 32 is a motorboat designed in the late eighties. The Sea Ray Pachanga 32 is built by the American yard Sea Ray.

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Hull

The hull is made of hand laid fibreglass while the deck is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of hand laid 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.

Interior

The interior is like nearly all boats made of wood.
The boat is equipped with one cabin, 5 berths, a galley, 45.0 liter fresh water capacity and toilet facility.

Keel

Unknown keel type

The boat can sail close to the beach as the draft is just 0.33 - 0.43 meter (1.08 - 1.38 ft) dependent of the load. See immersion rate below.

Engine

Sea Ray Pachanga 32 may be equipped with an inboard MerCruiser 454 Magnum engine at 660 hp (491 kW). Max speed is 77.0 knots.

The transmission is a Z-drive aka sterndrive.

The fuel tank, which is made of stainless steel, has a capacity of 650.0 liters (171 US gallons, 142 imperial gallons).

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.

Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Sea Ray Pachanga 32 is about 167 kg/cm, alternatively 935 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 167 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 935 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.

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 Sea Ray Pachanga 32 is 3.72.

Compared with other similar motor boats it is slimmer than 99% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more speedy hull design. This type of design is also referred to as 'needle'.

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.
Further, having a maximum speed of 77.0knots, the boat is categorized as a High Performance Powerboat.

Maintenance

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Finally

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References

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