One of the unfortunate problems with long,slender hulls is that almost the entire boating industry charges for boats based on length,rather than on their real size-their displacement.If only dockage and storage were calculated based on displacement in tons,not length in feet.Using tons,all of our normalized example boats from 45' to 67' LOA would pay the same storage fees.Instead-as things are-the much more economical longer,slender boats are penalized by paying higher storage due to their longer lengths.This is a real shame and something that the boating industry should address to encourage more efficient boats. Tons may be too abstract a number to be practical. After all,how is a yard to check on the tonnage figdre you supply them with? I've long proposed that dockage and storage be based on simply 3.5 times the beam.For our three example boats,this would give the bill-able dockage lengths shown in Table 6.
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