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Sarum 28 |
Brief details |
Builder |
BACO Aluminium (Ravensbourne) Ltd. |
The Sarum 28 is a
beamy small fast cruiser, with an aluminium hull and deck, giving
light weight and great strength. She has deep efficient twin keels. Provided care has been taken through the boat's life to avoid electrochemical corrosion from contact with unsuitable materials such as copper, aluminium hulls are very strong and long-lasting. |
LOA |
27' 8" |
Sail area |
390 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
21' 6" |
Rig |
Masthead sloop |
Beam |
10' 0" |
Cabins |
Saloon & forecabin |
Draught |
4' 3" |
Berths |
4 |
Displacement |
6,400 lbs |
Engine |
usually Yanmar or Bukh |
Ballast |
3,240 lbs |
BHP |
12 |
Keel type |
Twin aerofoil iron bilge keels and skeg-hung rudder |
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The Sarum 28 was designed in the mid 1970s
by Robert Tucker for the British Aluminium Co. (BACO), who
set up a subsidiary company to build boats.
The Sarum 28 has a beamy multi-chine hull with either deep
twin bilge keels or a single fin, with a skeg-hung rudder.
The hulls were built to Lloyds scantlings, with 4.76 mm plating
on the hull, and 9.52mm on the keelson and engine beds. The
deep twin bilge keels are aerofoil section, and are akin to
the efficient "twin fins" fitted much later to British
Hunter boats.
Early boats had bolted-on aluminium toerails, later boats
such as the one illustrated had the alloy toerails welded on as part of the
hull build. The original design brochure shows a sailplan
drawing with a 7/8 fractional rig, but the example illustrated has a masthead rig, which was thus probably an option. The
very stiff welded hull construction of the Sarum 28 makes
the interior bulkheads non-structural, hence it is easy to
alter interior fittings and layouts, as has been done on the boat illustrated.
The original engines fitted to Sarum 28s were 12 hp Yanmar
YSE or Bukh diesels.
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