Plans/lines for Heard 28

pastyluvver

Joined: 18 Apr 2008

Posted on 18 Jan 2011 - 7:07pm

Can anyone help please - I have a Heard 28 currently based in Canada and need some measurements of the hull/rudder/transom to fit some windvane steering. Unfortunately I am here in Cornwall so separated from the boat by a few thousand miles and can't just run a tape measure over it. I've tried to email Sam at the yard but am not getting any reply.

Scale drawings would be best but some essential measurements otherwise. I need to know:

1. What is the freeboard on the transom? ie measurement from top of transom to water
2. How far does the rudder protrude aft of a vertical line down from the aft edge of the outboard rudder post?

Mine was built in 1997. Deck/tabernacle stepped mast, medium cabin trunk.

Hope someone can help me out or I will make the pilgrimage to the yard!

Ron Arnold

Joined: 08 Jun 2009

Posted on 13 Jul 2011 - 11:11am

for what it is worth....i will provide the measurements of my sails, but I know they differ from the others.

Look at the gallery and you will see that they are all slightly different. I would say that it is essential to measure your own boat and not take mine or others dims.

regards

Ron

Homme Zwaagstra

Joined: 05 May 2009

Posted on 26 May 2011 - 12:12pm

Brian, I have sailed on one of the earlier Heard 28s, a 1978 model, which did have a self draining cockpit. I know this because we shipped a lot of water over the coaming and it did drain away!

Our 28 Verity is of 1977 vintage (I think) and also has a self draining cockpit: any water shipped drains through the cockpit sole and into the bilge!!

Brian Neale

Joined: 03 Sep 2006

Posted on 23 Feb 2011 - 9:09pm

Interesting - it only reinforces that fact that no two of these boats are the same! Vive la difference!

Colin Stroud

Joined: 25 Aug 2006

Posted on 22 Feb 2011 - 10:10pm

Brian, I have sailed on one of the earlier Heard 28s, a 1978 model, which did have a self draining cockpit. I know this because we shipped a lot of water over the coaming and it did drain away!

Brian Neale

Joined: 03 Sep 2006

Posted on 26 Jan 2011 - 9:09pm

Is the difference between the two moulds whether or not the cockpit is self-draining? I seem to remember that the freeboard was raised in the new mould when a SD cockpit was needed for RCD requirements. Or maybe not - as Steve says, there is a lot of variation! Just trying to find a way that you might be able to tell if a given boat laid up in the yard is likely to be similar (identical is tricky...) to yours. Given that you find a boat from the same mould, I think it's pretty likely that it won't be too different, though, in terms of height above water as the depth of immersion only varies as something like 0.5" per ton - and anyway, at least the later boats have a waterline marked in the gel coat right out of the mould which gives a reference. I wouldn't be too confident that the rudders are similar, though.

Good luck,

Aeolus FWB28

Joined: 26 Aug 2006

Posted on 22 Jan 2011 - 7:07pm

This wont be easy, even with a trip to the yard.

The boats vary enormously the only sure way is to get someone to measure your boat.There are also 2 hull types, the freeboard was raised in the later versions. The chances of any 28 being like another 28 are about 1 in the number of boats built !

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