What is displacement?
Displacement means getting transferred to a different spot. It is not where you originally were meant to be. In psychology, displacement is a term used to describe emotions that are being transferred to another person or object. You can find more information here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/d…
Displacement is how much the boat weighs. When the boat is placed in water, this is how many pounds of water will be displaced. Foam core construction is about 30% lighter than solid fiberglass, Aluminum, etc. When the designers use the term “full displacement”, it usually means the vessel is cruise-ready with equipment and fuel or with the “useful load” on board. While “light displacement” means empty and where it doesn’t even have fuel on board. Lighter construction allows more payload to be carried and smaller engines to reach a good cruise speed, which uses less fuel, allows greater speeds, shallow draft, etc.. This is something to look at when you start comparing cats, there weight. Our 50′ cats weighed in at an average of 15,000 lbs. and draw about 30″ (rudder and props are the deepest) Where most production cats are up closer to 50,000 lbs, deeper draft, more hp to get them up to an acceptable speed, must carry more fuel to get her up there as well as the bigger engines. The des
