Day-sailer sailboat BayCruiser 20

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The BayCruiser 20 is a cabin boat design, for those who enjoy the performance of our Raider boats but want the comfort and convenience of a permanent shelter. The boat has been loosely based on the BayRaider 20, with the key design requirements of performance and safety. She has more beam and higher freeboard than the open boat but retains the same classical styling. The design evolution The initial idea was to simply fit a cabin to our 6m BayRaider hull but we quickly found it would be difficult to disguise the high cabin needed for sitting headroom inside. We were also worried about the additional top weight creating stability issues unless we also brought out the beam to support it. The outcome has been a new hull design that creates much more interior volume for her length, with increased beam and freeboard. Water ballasted for safety, convenience and performance Like the BayRaider, her most unique feature is her water ballast system. She stores 400kg of water in two tanks, one under the Vee berth, and the other under the cockpit floor. They are both under the waterline so fill under the weight of the boat alone. There is a large capacity bilge pump to pump them dry which can be diverted to pump the cabin bilge dry. Alternatively the boat can be left to drain as you winch her onto her trailer, or just left full on her mooring. The water ballast means the boat can be extraordinarily easy to tow, launch and recover, and very quick in light winds too. In tougher conditions, or when you just want the security of knowing you have a self righting boat, simply fill the tanks, her weight almost doubles, and the whole character of the boat changes.