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Don't know too much about them, but I seem to remember an article ... YM/PBO ... probably, which was quite complmentary about the LMs. The bit I remember, I think, was that the hulls were, in fact, yacht hulls with a superstucture more of a Motor sailer, consequently the sailing performance was much better than you would expect.
 
Drat!! ToMo was looking for something that cost as much to run as a rag boat but performed like a motor boat. Or so a little bird told me!!

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Haydn
 
The 'second-generation' LMs were reasonably sharp sailers. The rig was quite generous yet easily managed. The hulls were double-ended. The keel is a long fin keel and the rudder is skeg-hung. They have wheelhouses for when the weather turns nasty.
The 32 had the galley in the wheelhouse and the saloon at the lower level together with a heads forward and a twin berthed forecabin. The external steering was by tiller and in the wheelhouse by hydraulically linked wheel.
They are heavily moulded and toughly yet neatly finished. As I recall, the cockpit and wheelhouse soles were on the same level and there were issues about flooding if the cockpit was ever filled.
They were fitted with 27hp Volvos with Saildrive which, with their six tonne displacement, was not excessive.
LM ceased trading a few years ago.

JJ
 
Probably too late, but these were Danish built. This past week, the same model (LM32) was berthed next to Katoema in France. They were stuck, they had a problem with the Volvo motor and were to spend the next few days waiting for a part. It was their first problem in six years, if this helps. The couple were in their 60's!
 
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