Head room required

[Alan1]

Does anyone have a suggestion for a 27 - 30 ft yacht with good headroom 6- 6ft 3inch.

Thanks

 

[FullCircle]

Evolution 25 has 6ft headroom in the saloon.

 

[scotts_mist]

There may be quite a few that meet that headroom in that size range (My own Tomahawk 25 has 6ft though a shade short in terms of LOA for you) - so perhaps narrow down with some further details:

How new a boat?
Construction - GRP, other, don't care?
Rough budget?

 

[VicS]

Westerly Konsort ?

 

[NickRobinson]

Mirage- or Macwester? just- Not Seawych!

Nick

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Vancouver 27 or 28

 

[Tranona]

In that length range 6'+ headroom comes with either deep hull (such as Vancouver) or tall coachroof - or both. Difficult to get flat hull and sleek coachroof and good headroom. Once you get over 30' those constraints start to disappear.

So, perhaps you need to decide what sort of boat you want, what you want to do with it and how big your budget is to see if you can find a suitable boat with that additional constraint.

 

[richardsn9]

A Moody 29 would suit. I think there's one on ebay at the moment......

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Colvic Watson 28

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Not many boats at around 30ft have over 6ft headroom. My Macwester has good headroom although I never had the need to measure it, because I am only 5ft 9in, but I think it is a few inches over 6ft; and you can pick one up comparatively cheap. What is your budget? can you go for a Westerly Fulmar (31ft 9inches). Motorsailers will have more headroom than a slick sailing yacht.

 

[Leighb]

Our Halmatic 30 has 6' headroom through the saloon, but OP asked for 6' 3", not many boats of that size with that headroom I would think?

 

[William_H]

I have always thought that typical yachts squander a lot of headroom with thick flat floor boards. There is no rule that floor must be flat so floor can be lower in areas between the beams even down to the hull in some areas. In my little boat I threw away the floor panels and filled the gaps up to beams with foam then covered with carbon fibre mat and resin to give me anothe cm at least of headroom and more between the beams. This might give OP some ideas about modifying a type of boat he otherwise likes. good luck olewill

 

[jwilson]

Stag 28 - see http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/stag-28/stag-28.htm - max headroom 6' 5" without looking too ugly. Plenty of 5' 10" to 6' 0" headroom boats, very few with much more in your size range.

 

[ditchcrawler]

I had a Hunter Ranger 265 with over 6ft headroom.Hunter boats also tend to have long berths as the owner of Hunters some time ago was Peter Poland who was about 6ft 3ins.
He told me this one year at LIBS.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I had a Hunter Ranger 265 with over 6ft headroom.Hunter boats also tend to have long berths as the owner of Hunters some time ago was Peter Poland who was about 6ft 3ins.
He told me this one year at LIBS.

We had one of these as our first cruiser, plenty of headroom - in fact all our subsequent (and larger) boats have had less.

 

[Tintin]

Leisure 27. Known for their cavernous interiors that were well ahead of their time.

Btw mine is for sale.

 

[Humblebee]

Leisure 27. Known for their cavernous interiors that were well ahead of their time.

Btw mine is for sale.

Well, that's a coincidence -so is mine!
http://www.forbesboatcare.co.uk/escal.html