The Tanzer 10.5 is a Canadian

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, that was first built in 1983. The boat was developed from the 1980

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designed

Tanzer 10 The Tanzer 10 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Dick Carter and first built in 1980. The design was later developed into the Tanzer 10.5. Production The boat was built by Tanzer Industries Limited in Dorion, Quebec. The company en ...

, with contributions from

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.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 268-269. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.

Production

The boat was built by Tanzer Industries Limited in

Dorion, Quebec Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. ...

. The company entered bankruptcy in 1986 and production had ended by then.

Design

The Tanzer 10.5 is a small recreational

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, built predominantly of

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, with wood trim. It has a masthead

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rig, a transom and skeg-hung

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, wheel steering and a fixed fin

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or optionally a swing keel as the Tanzer 10 LK. The boat displaces and carries of ballast. The boat is powered by a Japanese-made

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of . It has a

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and inside steering. The pilothouse is access ed from the cockpit down a short ladder. The pilothouse has wrap-around windows and a helm position to starboard, with a chart table located outboard. Aft of the pilothouse is the

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with a shower. Next to that is the

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, with a three-burner

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stove and oven. The main cabin is two steps down from the pilothouse and features a dinette table with seating for eight people. The table can be converted to a double berth. In the bow are two separate berths, with the starboard one above the port one. There are seven deck hatches and three opening ports for ventilation. Sails include a self-tending

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, 110% and 150% genoas, as well as a poleless

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of intended only for cruising use. It has a

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of .

Operational history

In a review Michael McGoldrick wrote, "The Tanzer 10.5 (a 34 footer) was designed with a number of very interesting and innovative features. It has a retractable ballasted keel. Unlike many boats with a swing keel arrangement, the Tanzer 10.5's keel fills-in the entire keel house opening when it is in its lowered position. This means its performance should come very close to that of a true fixed keel. (While conceived as a boat with a retractable keel, it was possible to order it with a standard fin keel or fixed shoal draft keel.) Although the Tanzer 10.5 looks very much like a sleek sailboat, it actually has a pilot house with an interior steering station. Likewise, although the Tanzer 10.5 looks like it is an aft-cockpit boat, it is really a quasi mid-cockpit sailboat. It has a cabin located aft of the cockpit, which is connected to the main cabin by a small passage way. The innovative design of the Tanzer 10.5 does have a few drawbacks. For example, it has a small cockpit for a 34 footer, and because of the complexities of the keel lifting mechanism, this part of the boat is prone to problems."

Variants

;Tanzer 10.5 :Standard keel version with a draft of . The boat has a

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racing average handicap of 162. ;Tanzer 10.5 LK :''Lifting Keel'' version, with a draft of with the keel down and with the keel retracted. The keel is hydraulically raised and its housing is located inside both the main cabin and the pilothouse. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 153 with a high of 153 and low of 156.

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