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2001 Camano 28 Cruiser Photos
2001 Camano 28 Cruiser Test Details
| Category | Trawler |
| Length | 31ft / 9.45 m |
| Beam | 10 ft |
| Fuel Capacity | 363 L |
| Weight | 10,000 lb |
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2001 Camano 28 Cruiser Description
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The Camano 28 has no glamour in its rugged profile,
just 28 feet of optimized boat for a couple or small family. It is
designed and built to go the distance. Its lines will never grow
old-fashioned because they were never in
fashion. This boat bucks trends the same way its bluff workboat-style
bow bucks heavy seas.
The moulds are the same as they were the day designer Bob Warman launched the first boat in the early 90s, but the boat is peppered with subtle evolutionary differences.
The hull is solid glass below the waterline (alternating layers of 1.5-ounce strand mat and 18 to 24-ounce woven roving with a biaxial knitted glass used in the high-stress areas). Corecell, a closed-cell composite, is used above the waterline. All glass is hand-laid. Any wood used in the bulkheads is pressure-treated marine-grade plywood. Everything flooring, decking and overhead is glassed to the hull to form a rigid structure that doesnt move or work underway.
You enter off the swim grid across a compact aft deck into a bright, airy white gelcoat and Honduras mahogany main salon. There is a settee/dinette to port, a lower helm to starboard. Two steps take you down into a compact galley to port with the Force 10 two-burner with oven standard stove (three-burner is an option). Opposite the galley is a full-size walk-in head with shower, just abaft a V-berth master stateroom.
The Camano 28 is set up for serious long-distance all-weather cruising, with a comfortable command bridge, a lower helm with 360 visibility, and a human-scale ground tackle system on a large, comfortable bow. Camano owners regularly brave the demanding Johnstone Strait, Queen Charlotte Strait and Inside Passage trek to Alaska.
There is good headroom everywhere, and ample shoulder room. The galley has plenty of cabinets and working surfaces.
The compact engine room contains a lot of equipment for its size. Two house and one starting battery, tankage, a Volvo TAMD 200-hp in-line six-cylinder diesel, and the driest bilge I have ever seen. There is chafe protection for all wiring and plumbing wherever it passes through a bulkhead.
Company owner Brad Miller and I took the test boat for a spin on the Fraser River, where all hulls are pre-tested before shipping. The 28 comes standard with a Key Power Bow Thruster, strong enough to spin the small boat through 360 degrees. Under way, sound levels in the salon varied from 60 dbA at idle to the 80 to 88 dbA range at cruising speeds.
Below the waterline, Bob Warman designed what he called a keel-form hull, a shape that takes its inspiration from the bulbs on offshore freighters. The objective was a boat that moved easily and economically at displacement speeds, but had the potential of 16 to 20 knots. In our sea trial
(5/8-tank of fuel, half-tank of water, with wind and tide a factor in both directions), she met all of these expectations. We came onto plane without hesitation, cruised easily at 15 knots at 3,600 rpm.
Despite the heavy hull, the boat feels pretty slippery when on plane.
We topped out at 17.1 knots at 3,900 rpm peppy performance from what looks like a displacement cruiser.
2001 Camano 28 Cruiser Test Specifications
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Test boat engine:
Volvo Penta TAMD41P, 200-hp,
3.6-litre (219-cid), six-cylinder inboard diesel engine,
driving a four-blade 20 in. X 20 in. bronze propeller.
Top speed (GPS)
rpm mph
3,900 19.6
Cruising speed (GPS)
rpm mph
2,800 14.5
3,000 15.2
3,200 16.4
3,600 16.7
Speed testing by Magellam GPS
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