by Charles Bell
Length 29’, LWL 20’, Beam 8’ 6”, Draft 4’ 4”, Sail area 382 sq. ft., Headroom 6’ 3”, Displacement 7,000 lbs., Sleeps four to six
By any standards, this sleek 29-footer must be considered a fine yacht.
Fiberglass hull, teak decks, spruce mast, stainless steel rigging, fittings and bronze hardware, yet she is easy to build and her probable cost will be about $4,200 for all materials including the motor. Some builders will shade this through wise buying and by forgoing some the finer interior equipment, winches and Dacron sails, but most owners will see the value of this beauty of a boat and will finish her in the finest way possible in order to make a good investment gilt-edged. It is interesting to note that the cost of the FRP hull, teak deck, mast and rigging will total less than half of the cost of the completed boat, so fittings and equipment are not the small items most people think they are and one of the reasons Why a fiberglass hull cannot save a giant proportion of the total cost in anything except a very small boat. B-29 enjoys another unique feature which, to my knowledge, has never been designed into a ballasted sailboat before, which is that she has positive floataion even when filled with water. The reason is that she has 7,280 lbs. of rigid urethane foam flotation built into the boat hull, deck and cabin and poured into all odd and unusable spaces. This is 280 lbs. more flotation than the total weight of the boat.
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