Gary wrote:
Okay, my turn again. I just googled you and see you may
be a Nav Arch. So why don't you calculate the AVS?

I am quite confident (and I am not a Nav Arch) that the boat
will have a better stability curve than is represented by the
one posted.

If it doesn't, and it has an AVS of 110, I wouldn't touch it
for anything but coastal wandering. It will surprise me
because the AVS claims for the 460 are 0 degrees on all the
Tayana websites and the other Harris boats are so seaworthy.

Really though, since we are not doing the buying, this is
just an interesting discussion. No need to get ****ed off.

The report including the curve was sent to me by Tayana's
engineer named Basil last Sunday (Monday in Taiwan).

"Nice to talk with you. Re AVS of Vancouver 460 is 110 degrees.
... Enclosed the report of inclining experiment total 3 pages.
The last page shown the GZ curve. Please let me know if you
have more questions."

The AVS was probably determined from the curve but I don't
know if they actually closed all the hatches and turned the
boat upside down for the inclining experiment :-)

BTW, didn't somebody recommend a Catalina (with an AVS of 105)
over this Tayana and the Beneteaus for crossing the Pacific ?