Length	8.61 m
Displacement	4500 kg
Material	Steel
Hull Draft	0.89 m
LWL	7.47 m
Hull Weight	2500 kg
Beam	3.2 m
Max Speed	14 kn plus
Motor capacity	210 hp
Fuel Type	Diesel
Fuel Capacity	700 litres

Smart steel medium speed 28 foot fishing boat or family cruiser with extended cabin. Can be built motor under floor (Geordie) or with engine box and accommodation for 6 (David version). Geordie version shown used as commercial craft. Makes a top family cruiser with an extended cabin . Photo shown a professional fishing boat working out of Tweed Heads NSW, Australia.

Extended cabin version also available. Can be extended to 30 foot on same beam.

Alternative details on plan for raised deck forward cruiser version, with engine under saloon floor or accommodation for 6 with engine box and lower cabin floor. All details in PDF

Fishing version has comfortable accommodation for two persons with galley and toilet. Some built with extended cabin, details shown on drawings.
Cruiser version has saloon over engine or with accommodation for 6 with engine box and lower saloon floor and overall profile. See photo of timber Geordie elsewhere in this photo gallery.

Planing hull, constant deadrise with no twist. Has flaired topsides between chine and deck line forward. 12.5 degrees deadrise at transon.

Plans come with full size patterns.

This hull shape was ahead of its time. The engines available such as the Perkins 6.354, although great engines, were a little too heavy to make this hull really go. It comes alive very much with the new light weight diesels such as the Yanmar, Volvo or Styer new generation of marine diesels. 1.5:1 downangle gearbox. 500mm propeller.