The Boating Forum - Panga, tale of the tape..

I finally remembered to bring a tape measure with me.. I measured the floor width at the console and it measeres 6'2", I can just comfortably lay cross wise in the boat. Outside gunnel to gunnel was 7'6", sides where a little more than 4" thick. Sides where right at 25" tall from the floor. "stem to stern" measured 26'7". There is 18" between the side and the console. A little narrow and long. Almost identical to a 26ft Scarab Sport. Just consider the panga as a Diesel Scarab Sport with a smoother ride, twice the range and half the speed!

Might be a little narrow, but that is still one big boat. I am impressed with the performance numbers you have been posting on the diesel.

I fished a 32 Panga from Panga.com out of Key West last week. I was extremely impressed with the stability and the ride.

I just love these "modern" marine engineers and architects running around taking credit for some nameless aborigines' blood, sweat and tears!

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Edward Teach - 3/16/2005 6:43 PM

I just love these "modern" marine engineers and architects running around taking credit for some nameless aborigines' blood, sweat and tears!

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err....?!?!
;?

The 'origonal' Panga was designed in the 70's as part of a FAO project.

(FAO = FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS)

See also:
:http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/003/W7260E/W7260E02.htm

for the Abstract and line drawings ofthe origonal FAO Pangas. Note that they are displacment hulls for use with small (6-10hp) motors.

Although the Panga hull is not exactly new (30 yr old design?), to lump the Panga in with Alamas and other 'native' boats is simply not true.

Jerry

I remembered reading somewhere that Yamaha original designed the Panga for the World Bank.... ;?