SEABUDDY
ON BOATS

seabuddy says its a big and important show. Often the last chance to make a real deal on a new or brokerage boat. A good size amount of boats, accessories, and boat gear on land, plus a huge layout of boats in the water.

The 25th Annual Palm Beach International Boat Show, March 25 – 28, 2010, is one of the top ten boat shows in the country – featuring more than $350 million worth of boats, yachts and accessories from the world’s leading marine manufacturers. It is truly an International Show. The event includes hundreds of Boats from 8 foot inflatables, power boats, fishing boats, center consoles, bow riders, personal watercraft to superyachts over 150’.

A horizontal reference line on both the profile and plan papers where all the height dimensions will use as their starting point. While it can be located at any point, it is popular to use the load waterline or perhaps a horizontal part of the keel line.

In boat plans, and in lofting, the the centerline of the boat drawings and the centerline of the boat shown.  It is shown in plan and body view. Take dimensions of any widths from this centerline out to the point.

In boat plans, the body is made into two parts, one half showing the forward stations and the other half showing the aft stations. Think of these lines showing what the boat will look as seen fro the bow, and then the stern, at the point where there are lines shown. The heights and widths are true numbers, or dimensions.

In any discussion on the lines of a boat please remember  that a Plan View is looking at the boat drawings as if you are looking down, from above. Usually, only one half of the boat being discussed is shown. All widths are true distances. 

A Profile view (profile)  is when you are looking at the drawings as seen from the side. Any heights are true, here.

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14″ Multifunction Widescreen display with WXGA resolution and built-in WAAS compatible GPS. Includes preloaded U.S. continental coastal charts.

Short version; massive power and a unique torque curve that does not “curve” and thus it is re-named: Torque Mesa (or Mesa, for a one word title). It’s the biggest thing about this new Mercury Racing engine, transmission, and outdrive and that drove the internal secret code name for Merc Racing…Project Mesa.

Spec version; a 6,500 rpm red-line, 4.57 bore and a 4.21 stroke gives boaters a 9.0 liter V-8 with 4 cams, four-valves per cylinder, and turbo-charged engine that computer controls boost and torque at high rpms.

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