The Endeavour 32 certainly deserves it's high rating. ...
Oh aye, who could argue that the 32 anything but 6.81 more comforts
(pounds per feet to the two-thirds) than than the 33?
Seriously, the E 32 is a fine boat but the comfort number in and of
itself is BS. Brewer talks about the CR on his web site
http://www.tedbrewer.com/yachtdesign.html and says "This is a ratio
that I dreamed up, tongue-in-cheek, as a measure of motion comfort.."
He goes on to rationalize about how it might be valid anyway, but fails
to note that he is not at all disinterested in this since his narrow
heavy and slow designs compete directly with the notably wider, lighter
and faster designs. His formula puts "super heavy vessel[s], such as a
Colin Archer ketch" at the top of the comfort scale. Such vessels are
unlivable running deep in a seaway or riding out a calm, and they
manage to be slow and unweatherly as well. Can they really be the
pinnacle of comfort?
-- Tom.