Some nautical terms need to be mentioned, this blog is for everybody, not only for specialists. LOA means Length Over All, and is the longest length of the yacht. LWL is the Length of the Water Line. Hull is the shell and framework of the floating part of the boat. As a tip, you can know what could be the approximate speed of a boat, just knowing the LWL. This is called Hull Speed, sometimes displacement speed, and is the square root of LWL in feet, multiplied with a constant, calculated … [Read more...]