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Jeff,
You are right, on these sites there is the info, but Jeanneau and Beneteau are European and the official sites are those I mentioned. These sites you refer are not the yacht builders but the importers and representatives in the States, totally different companies. I do expect from the builder to provide us complete and accurate info.
You are also right that the displacement is the most precise measurement (I called it "volume" in my article), but I disagree that the LOA affects the displacement. Even the "hull length" hardly make a change. When you add a "sugarscoop" on a 45 ft boat you don't make a 47 footer. You only have a 45 footer with sugarscoop (exactly this happened back in '89, when Jeanneau took the Sun Kiss 45, added a sugarscoop in the transom, and over-night baptized it Sun Kiss 47). The LOA changed, the Hull Length changed, but the displacement or the LWL hasn't. Only the name and the price of the boat changed.
But since you mentioned Beneteau firm, can you please find -on any site you like- the LWL of the newest Beneteau models Cyclades 39, Cyclades 43 and Cyclades 50? I'm trying to find this info to add the models on my pages but I cannot.
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