Water doesnt collect anywhere on a Dana, all the surfaces and locker openings have angles or deep gutters to allow the water to flow away. The answer to that is probably not many, but having spent too many depressing times in cold and filthy Marina shower blocks I was determined to have a shower on my boat. Access to the bilge behind the fuel tank is next to impossible. Website dana 24 circumnavigation It must be an American preference thing. She might be small but she does all I could ever hope for. The Dana is a heavy boat but thats a good thing in rough weather. There is a shower grate made of teak and a useful and deep sump to catch the shower water. It would be true to say that I am fairly intimate with my boat, its construction and behaviour. Since then Gus has fitted an Aquadrive, sound proofing and a 3 bladed prop and it is much improved but like Doolittle, theres no shutting it up completely. A better design of port holes would help but no one has attempted this. They also make excellent sea berths, being located as they are centrally in the boat. The Dana might be a practical boat but shes noticed everywhere she goes and passers by always comment positively. All the boats I have sailed on that have a cut away in the rudder have had problematical steering. Watching the Doolittle video has us drooling. The fridge is very well insulated with a minimum of four inches of foam all around it. Bill Morris, an author on bluewater gear, started the voyage in 2000 out of San Pedro, California. 14:43. All the water that collects on the deck runs out through two scuppers on each side of the hull. You can look at it but with the engine in place thats about all you can do. I understand the need for it, after all it supports the mast but it is odd. Martn Ignacio was a renowned missionary in India and China, who circumnavigated the globe twice in his lifetime. Often moving the boat with the old two bladed prop was impossible, the prop just didnt have the bite and the boat was too heavy. The Dana is also built to a specification and not to a price and because of this she could never be described as a cheap boat. Iz minute u minutu pratite Politiku, Sport, Show, Lifestyle. Its the down side of owning such a solid boat! You can get to these areas easy enough with a dinghy however. What she was looking at was the sea! This is much better and slows down corrosion yet as far as I know, not one European manufacturer uses it. All the Danas I have seen are like this so unless you buy a new one, youll just have to live with it. Four in the ceiling and four reading lamps well placed at each end of the saloon bunks. The mast is easy to look after as it is well painted. With some breeze theres no stopping the Dana. I f I was to change my Colvic Watson 32 Motor Sailor the Dana would be my only choise. PSCs solution was to leave a bigger glue gap working on the assumption that they didnt use enough glue. It was night time of course and we were lit by hundreds of flashes of lightning. You would be amazed at how many modern boats have omitted this basic and sensible feature. Her keel is cut away at the bows and this certainly doesnt help. Once with a completely flat sea and a very light breeze, I was able to get Doolittle to hove to for half an hour with just the main sail. Another problem with the bowsprit is the bowsprit platform which is bolted directly on top of it. THIS BOAT HAS BEEN SOLD Boat type Sail Year 1980 Fuel type Diesel Hull material Fiberglass Length 27 Location Dana Point, CA Make Pacific Seacraft Orion Series 27 Location Dana Point, CA, USA Description Specifications Standard features Photos Contacts Major price reduction on this beautiful Pacific Seacraft 27 Orion Ready for its new owner! I would say that keeping a Dana spick and span involves a bit more work than most modern yachts but this is the price you pay to be that little bit different. When he designed the Dana back in the early 1980s he was about 65 years old and he used all his hard earned experience gained from a lifetime of creating and sailing yachts.