About this Sailboat:
The Precision 165 is intended to provide the most performance and fun possible within her builder’s mandate for a low trailer weight and an especially reasonable price. This cannot be done with smoke and mirrors, so it must be done by focusing exceptionally hard on developing her most vital “fun features” while trimming away anything not truly essential. Towards this end, her cockpit is drawn large and deep for comfort and security, but her freeboard is kept low for reduced weight and cost. Her interior features comfortable berth space for two, a portable but cleverly concealed head, an ice chest and dry storage, but she makes no specious claim to have “full standing headroom.” Her computer-modeled keel has an “end-plate effect” lead bulb for stability and efficiency to windward and shoal draft for easy trailering and launching. Her rig carries plenty of sail area for sprightly performance, but a simple three-stay rig for low weight, low cost and easy assembly.
Equipment on Board:
Standard Equipment
Hull & Deck
Hand laminated fiberglass construction
ISO/NPG Gelcoat Finish
Vinylester Resin Skin Coat
Bonded & through bolted hull/deck joint
Lead ballast
Opening forward hatch
Fiberglass companionway hatch
4 six inch cleats
SS bow rail
Boarding ladder
SS Bow eye2 opening ports
Cockpit
6′ 2″self bailing cockpit
Ventilated fuel tank locker
Kick-up rudder
Cabin
Structural grid interior liner
Fabric covered cushions
2 6′ 8″ berths
Backrest cushions w/shelves
Head storage area
Electrical
12 V electrical system
Fused switch panel
Interior and navigation lights
Battery box
Spars, & Rigging
Anodized mast and boom
Hinged mast step
Dacron running rigging
Swaged SS standing rigging
4:1 harken mainsheet system
Harken boom vang
Topping lift
Sails
110% jib
Jiffy reefing main sail
Optional Equipment
Port-a-Potti, Galv. Trailer, Roller Furler Jib,
