by Guest » Fri Mar 29, 2002 12:09 pm
In the sales brochures O'Day lists seating as 6 persons. The DS II, being a sailboat, was not required to have a "Capacity Plate" posted. To get a rough estimate of boat capacity, I would use Length X Beam divided by 15 = number of persons. For the DS II that is 16.75 X 6.25 = 104.6875 divided by 15 = 6.9792
so 7 persons might be OK. However, these numbers are for "Ideal Conditions" only, and so you may wish to carry less depending on the weather. I have had 3 people on my DS II several times, I would think that 4 would be very comfortable, more may get a bit crowded.
Rod Johnson, "SUNBIRD" (rjohnson24-at-juno.com)