Length?

[giovanna....@gmail.com]

Hi

I wonder about the length of the IW 40, in most website they are listed as 12,10, but one as 12. The S&S plans are for as boat 39 feet and six inches. Six inches is half a foot, not point six of a foot, as there are 12 inches in the a foot, not ten. If you calculate thirty nine feet and six inches you get 12.0394 meters, which counts as 12m. If you try, make sure the calculator you use actually uses inches (1/12) and not a metric decimal (1/10) (I paste below one that uses inches). If it uses a metric decimal, the boat is thirty nine and a half, or 39.5.

As this boat was designed at a similar time as the Swan 40, which is 11.98, I suspect that that I W 40 is actually meant to be 12 meters. I think the longer 12.10 is a mistake of conversion from imperial feet and inches to meters?

Obviously, from the perspective of marina bills the 12m exactly is advantageous as once you are over the 12m the boat is calculated as 13M.

There is one original IW 40 brochure on the S&S website that appears to list it as just 12m but then elsewhere its 12.10.

Any views?

Mark

https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/conversions/common/meters-to-feet-inches.php

[Leo]

Hello Mark,

When sold in Sweden she was officially 12.10m, like on the Swedish brochure. We have never measured her LOA, but some obnoxious and overzealous dockmaster in Gibraltar did and found it to be over 12m, making us pay for more than the usually provided 12m length. So my assumption is 12.10m. Not sure if that includes the pulpit, although for LOA it should. I believe the S&S drawing was made for a yard in the UK (but never built there), then transferred to IW where they might have made a small change?

In reality all you can do is either:
- measure her yourself and if under 12m use that with the conviction that you can prove it.
- show some brochure with 12m (or 39.5 ft) and hope to get away with it
- accept to pay for 12.10.m

Best regards,

Leo

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