Yes. If the draft was 4ft then by my scribblings about 30T cargo. The draft was the crucial variable + the guess-timate of the empty vessel weight.
Have you got a pieces of long string by any chance ? Maybe one Bruce P will be along shortly and will add much interesting detail to my fag packetry. This is the sort of topic that can start him off on one, and it's been a while. Beeky Memo to self, stop this top posting On 1 Dec 2009, at 18:56, Steve Haywood wrote: > Interesting that you estimate them only drawing three foot. I've > seen pix of > them loaded down to a couple of inches below the gunnels. That would > be > more, surely? > > Steve > > > 2009/12/1 Captain Beeky <[email protected]> > >> My mate Archimedes reckons - about 30/32T displacement if drawing >> 3ft. >> >> Less the shell and engine, what 12T maybe - so about 20T of cargo. >> The >> butty a tad more perhaps >> >> regards >> Rula Thumb >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
