Nauticat 33 Ketch.

Today’s assignment was at Goodchild Marine in Great Yarmouth. Goodchild Marine provide a full range of marina and marine support services to boat owners and boating enthusiasts enjoying leisure time on the eastern Norfolk Broads.

Today’s boat was this Nauticat Ketch. Nauticats are very well made motor sailers, manufactured by Siltala yachts at Turku in Finland. The 33 has been in production since 1966, and there are about 1200 of them worldwide. The name Nauticat comes from the Finnish for nautical quality and they are certainly quality boats.

This NC33 has a solid teak planked deck, screwed & bunged over a solid glass substrate. Since the deck screws don't penetrate through the 5/8" thick fiberglass, if the bungs are ever compromised, or screws loosen, cabin leaks typically will not occur.

Lots of lovely old wooden boats at Goodchilds...think this is an old pilot boat... double diagonal timber built..

 

The fibreglass on all Nauticats from the early 70's, right up to today, is of solid fiberglass. The greatest advantages of solid glass over balsa, or synthetic cored hulls, is hull strength, resistance to impact damage, and water resistance. The 33 displaces 18,000 lbs, but is built extremely tough. In fact, Nauticat Yachts has the undisputed reputation as builder of "the world's best-built motorsailers."



Keel designs do vary with production year. But most keels have a fiberglass encapsulated ballast, which was produced with the tall rig, modified fin keel and skeg-hung rudder option. Nauticats have always been built by the same boat builders in Finland. To learn more you could visit the Nauticat Yachts website - http://www.nauticat.fi/ , click on Yachts, then Traditional Motorsailers, and Nauticat 331, for a description of the current 33 ft model . These new models have undergone several design modifications, but still retain the similar lines and overall concept as the originals.

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