Review of Tanzer 28

Basic specs.

The Tanzer 28 is a sailboat designed by the Canadian maritime architect Johann Tanzer. The Tanzer 28 is built by the Canadian yard Tanzer Industries Ltd..

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

Rig

Rig of Tanzer 28.

The boat equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

Keel

The Tanzer 28 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 1.24 - 1.34 meter (4.07 - 4.37 ft) dependent on the load.

Engine

The boat is typically equipped with an inboard engine.

The transmission is a shaft drive. A shaft drive will in the long run require less maintenence than other types of drive e.g. a sail drive.

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

Over- / underrigged

Sorry, we do not have sufficient statistical information available for this boat to provide a significant reliable analysis.

Maintenance

Rig

Dimensions of sail for masthead rig.

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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.

**Guiding dimensions of running rig**
Usage	Length		Diameter
Mainsail halyard	22.6 m	(74.2 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)
Jib/genoa halyard	22.6 m	(74.2 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)
Spinnaker halyard	22.6 m	(74.2 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)
Cunningham	3.0 m	(10.0 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)
Kickingstrap	6.1 m	(20.0 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)
Clew-outhaul	6.1 m	(20.0 feet)	6 mm	(1/4 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.