Passagemaker Lite B-75

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  • PL B-75, 75' aluminum Passagemaker Lite
  • PL B-75, 75' aluminum Passagemaker Lite
  • PL B-75, 75' aluminum Passagemaker Lite
  • PL B-75, 75' aluminum Passagemaker Lite
  • PL B-75, 75' aluminum Passagemaker Lite
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  • Vessel Specifications and Comments

    • LOA: 78’6”
    • L hull: = 75’0”
    • LWL: 72’6”
    • Beam: 18’0”
    • Draft (full Load): 5’0”
    • Displacement (full Load): 102,000 lbs
    • Fuel: 3500 usg
    • Fresh Water: 1500 usg
    • Power: John Deere 6090SFM75 M1 rating 325 HP at 2100 RPM
    • Construction: Round-bottom aluminum construction.

About the Plans

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Designer's Comments

  • Speed knots – HP – Fuel Burn (usg per hour):
    • 14 – 426 – 20.6
    • 13 – 333 – 16.3
    • 12 – 244 – 12.5
    • 10.6 – 150 – 8.5
    • 9.5 – 91 – 5.6
    • 8.5 – 55 – 3.6

The latest Passagemaker Lite is a 75’ round-bottom aluminum ship. She is a development of the PL74, but with single engine, twin skegged rudders, and better accommodation.

Like the 74 she retains the aft deck storage for a large shore boat (16’ by 7’6”), and the huge garage with swim-step access, but the pilothouse has been raised to allow the owner’s cabin to move aft on the lower level. This allows space for a big “kids” sleeping and day cabin directly forward of the pilothouse, and a VIP stateroom in the bow. So we have three separate sleeping cabins, all full width of the vessel.

Day living is on the main deck, with large raised dinette in the pilothouse area, with galley next aft, and a saloon area opening onto the aft deck. There are ladders inside and out (aft deck) to the flying bridge which has a fixed hard top and room for additional small craft aft.

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  • Passagemaker Lite design series is Tad Roberts' modern, lightweight, fuel-efficient re-statement of the fast, seaworthy, long-range power cruiser. There are now two series, the orginal traditional one and a modern one, in lengths from 39' to 98'.

Design Review

Design Review of Passagemaker Lite 39 in Wooden Boat Magazine, June 2012
Wooden Boat Issue 226, June 2012
Off the Drawing Board: Passagemaker Lite 46, 56, and 80 PDF
Art Paine, Maine Boats and Harbors, Issue 76, Autumn 2003

There is nothing new to the idea of thin, light, seaworthy, and fast powerboats, and Tad Roberts has been inspired by several of those of the past. To Roberts, these boats brought to mind a glaring question: Why didn't the whole world flock to these sensible and efficient pleasure powerboat designs? He answered that question by identifying the elements that limited the type, and, in his Lite designs, addressed them. All in all, the Passagemaker Lite series is masterful work.

Tad Roberts