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Pilothouse Sailboats
Good for heavy weather sailing, but not so good in hot climates
Pilothouse have an inside steering position this is the pilothouse. So why buy a pilothouse sailboat? A pilothouse sailboat is ideal if you sail in colder places, or wish to extend your sailing season into late autumn, and start early.
The main advantage is that you can control the sailboat from inside the pilothouse and keep warm and dry. However, the pilothouse must be quite high to give you standing headroom and the ability to see forward well, increasing windage.
Generally, pilothouse are heavier than sporty yachts and are intended for motor sailing as much as out and out sailing. Most do not sail to windward quite as well as conventional sailboats, but they have other advantages. Because Scandinavian waters are so cold, the Scandinavians build many good pilothouse including the Najad and Nauticat ranges.
The pilothouse is aft of the main cabin, and at deck level, and there is usually a small cockpit behind, with an outside wheel. However, you need to be high up to see over the pilothouse. In the normal arrangement, the engine is below the pilothouse, and the main cabin will lead to the heads and hanging locker, with a V-berth in the forepeak.
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may be an aft sleeping cabin as well, reached from the pilothouse. The smallest pilothouse sailboat is probably the Fisher 25, but there is also a larger model. Fishers are aptly named, as they resemble fishing boats with a tall pilothouse , and a very shallow keel they do not sail well to windward, but can be motored or motor sailed in bad weathers.
Moody produced a pilothouse version of its 32 and 38 footers called Eclipses, and these are more like ordinary yachts than many pilothouse sailboats. They have either fin or twin bilge keels.
Another interesting range of pilothouse are the Southerlys 110, 115 and 135 -these are 35 feet, 37 feet and 45 feet LOA with a shallow pilothouse. They are remarkable for their swing keels which provide shoal draft for exploring rivers, yet have a deep keel when sailing. The 115 has a draft of 2 feet 4 in (0.71 m) with the keel up, and 8 feet 2 in (2.48 m) with it down; the figures for the 135 are 2 feet 9 in (0.84 m)and 9 ft 9 in (2.56 m). These pilothouse are beautifully equipped but have a fairly low ballast ratio.
Pilothouse they are sometimes called motor sailers include:
Designs by Ted Brewer and Bruce Roberts
Colvic 33 and 35
Cooper pilothouse 41
Corbin 39
Cromarty 36
Fisher
Gulf 32
Moody Eclipse 32 and 38
Nauticat 515, etc
Pacific Seacraft 32 Pilothouse
Roamer Motorsailer 38
Southerly
Vancouver 36 pilothouse
Voyager 35
Westerly Konsort Duo (29)
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