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Old 10-19-2014, 10:06 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by MeredithMan View Post
Jazzman brings up a key point. Boat length used to be water-line only. So, if you bought a 25 foot boat with a swim platform, you had 25 feet of boat and maybe another 2 feet of swim platform, for 27 feet overall. But, that boat would have been marketed as a 25 footer. In today's market, that model is marketed as a 27 footer, when it is really only 25 feet of water-line.

Just something to keep in mind when shopping...

MM
I don't ever recall boats being sold as waterline length. It was typically LOA from bow to stern and excluded anything like pulpits or platforms. These days there seem to be a lot of cases where an integral swim platform counts in the LOA of the boat.
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