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Ericson 34, plan Bruce King
LOA: 34.12 ft / 10.40 m LWL: 28.87 ft / 8.80
m S.A. (reported): 494.00 ft² / 45.89 m² Beam: 10.75 ft / 3.28 m Displacement:
10,000.00 lb / 4,536 kg
Ballast: 5,000.00 lb / 2,268 kg Max Draft: 5.92 ft / 1.80 m Construction: FG
First Built: 1978 Builder: Ericson Yachts (USA)
Sometimes referred to as the 34X, this is the 'blister' decked version of the ERICSON 34 designed to the IOR rule. The 34T shares the same hull but with a trunk cabin. A later boat, the ERICSON 34-2, is a completely different design
"34T/34X. Not sure if it is hull #1, but it
is the original 34 by BK. Raced 3/4 ton for a bit. The prototype was a custom
34 named Cadre which raced in New England and owned by Charlie Leighton, who
at the time was a major investor in Ericson. I do not believe Cadre was
actually built by Ericson, but it was the same hull design as this 34 (Jordan
Murphy!),"
" My thinking is, it must be hull #1 because it still
had the primaries on those islands that protruded into the cockpit. Looked great
on paper but once they sailed the boat they quickly figured out those islands
only allowed the tiller to move 25-30 degrees in each direction. So the original
boat went back to the factory and the deck tooling was revised with the primaries
farther outboard."
Seduction (hull #7) was launched in 1978;
