Documentation of Pocketship length

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Documentation of Pocketship length

Postby craig on Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:04 am

Hi all,

I'm registering my boat here in NC and the distinction between LOA and LWL could save me a lot of money in avoiding some registration fees (under 14 feet avoids titling requirement). So! As I understand it, Pocketship is 14'10" LOA and 13'8" LWL. Is this in the plans, manual, etc? I can't find any "official" documentation on that.

Thanks,

Craig
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Re: Documentation of Pocketship length

Postby DanaDCole on Wed Apr 20, 2016 7:47 am

For a definitive answer, you need to write John Harris. In the meantime, if you look at the drawing on the CLC website, it gives the LOA as 178", or 14'10". Page 4 of the plans shows three different waterlines for three different loadings, so that doesn't help much--I guess you could measure all three and take an average. I looked at the drawing on the front page, and there is what appears to be a (static?) waterline shown. I measured that to be approximately 13'10". Paper expands and contracts though, and there are going to be slight differences from build-to-build, but how accurate do you really need to be about something like that?
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Re: Documentation of Pocketship length

Postby craig on Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:02 am

If the under-13-foot number was printed in the plans, I would have photocopied it and sent it to the NC boat registration office. You know bureaucrats - everything has to be difficult. In NC, boats are registered based on their waterline length, and are significantly cheaper if under 14 feet (which Pocketship is). In Tennessee, I mistakenly registered the boat by its LOA of 14 feet 10 inches. I shudder to think what the NC officials will think when they get my paperwork.... on the phone they said I should just write a note explaining the discrepancy, but if I don't get it sent back to me I'll be surprised.
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