Fairline Targa 27

[dog]

Am looking at a 27 with twin AD31A engines (130hp each). Has anyone had any experience of these with the twin diesel option?

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[adarcy]

Nope we had a petrol AQ205 x 2 DP for 5+ yrs - if that's any help but told most on "petem"s website

Anthony

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[KevB]

A friend has one, cruises at about 22-24knots, flat out at about 26-27knots. No problems getting on the plane. Very economical. Anything specific you need to know?

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[dog]

Hi there, I need to know more about performance. I went on a demo last night and boat was very slow onto plane and only managed about 22 knots flat out. The bottom is a bit slimey and legs have barnacles. Would this be the cause or is there potentially something more sinister? I am very keen on the boat but dont want it to struggle with a limited top end.

Any further information would be really great.

Thanks, Brian

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

I would demand that the seller should clean the hull and drives before another sea trial. I had a Sealine 305 which is a bigger boat with these engines and it didnt particularly struggle onto the plane
Did you check that the engines were pulling full rpm at max speed because if they were'nt this could be an indication of a badly fouled hull
Do another sea trial before you commit

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[Aardee]

Try contacting Wiggo - I'm faily sure he had something similar...

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[ari]

Weed (even slime) will make a huge difference to performance.

Agree with the comment above, you need the boat out and pressurewashed.

Presumably you'd have a survey? Best thing is to purchase subject to satisfactory survey and sea trial and when out for survey have it pressurewashed and trial it afterwards.

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[longjohnsilver]

Yes weed makes a huge difference. Tested a Boston Whaler a few years back which had about an inch of weed on the hull, kept on a drying mooring, couldn't even get it to plane.

When I'd bort it and cleaned the bottom it did over 35 kts! I just couldn't believe that a bit of weed would make that much difference.

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[tcm]

agree with others, it's a dirty bum. But you need to see it - and they need to do it.

Interestingly ahem, this sort-of-perhaps means that few if any others are looking at the same boat - else it wd already be clean and quick?

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[dog]

Thanks to all who posted, feel much more reasured now!! Looked at drives/hull last night when she dried out- legs covered in barnacles, hull has a covering of slime and weed.

Having her surveyed next week, so hopefully all will be well.

Brian

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[ari]

"Looked at drives/hull last night when she dried out- legs covered in barnacles, hull has a covering of slime and weed."


That will honestly make a huge difference. Get her all cleaned up and she'll fly by comparison.

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[Pendana]

The Targa 27 was the successor to the sunfury and has basically the same hull. I would have thought it should perform similar to my sunfury which has the same engines. ie cruise 20 knots @3200rpm, 28 knots @3800. The engines take about 8 seconds to wind up and get over the hump before she hops onto the plane.

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