SEA BIRD 26 II (GARDEN)
Specifications
Hull
| LOA | 26.02 ft |
| LWL | 22 ft |
| Beam | 8.83 ft |
| Draft | 3.42 ft |
| Displacement | 3,500 lb |
| Ballast | 1,850.1 lb |
| Hull speed1.34·√LWL | 6.3 kn |
About the SEA BIRD 26 II (GARDEN)
William Garden Design #593. Designed originally for 'Rudder' magazine's "How to Build" series. It is also shown in Mr. Garden's book "Yacht Designs revised and expanded." She is meant to be an updated version of the famous SEABIRD design of 1911. (Also originally published in 'Rudder' more than fifty years earlier.) The construction is specified as timber frame and plywood.
Performance
Pricing
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Estimated Cost of Ownership
Based on 26.02ft LOA. Actual costs vary by condition, usage, and local rates.
Known Issues & Pre-Purchase Inspection
We don't have enough data on the SEA BIRD 26 II (GARDEN)yet to publish model-specific findings we'd stand behind — but here's a free general inspection checklist, built from our research into what actually goes wrong on boats of this kind.
Drawn from 7,029 documented issues across 2,391 models, ordered so the areas that most often turn up problems come first.
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