Return of a Legend
LOA: 35'1"
BEAM: 12'5"
DRAFT: 2'6"
DISPL.: 20,800 lb.
FUEL: 315 gal.
WATER: 50 gal.
TEST POWER: 2/507-hp
Caterpillar C7.1 diesel inboards
TRANSMISSION: ZF 280-A; 1.77:1 ratio
PROPELLERS: 22" x 31¼"
Veem 4-blade NiBrAl
GENERATOR: 1/6.5-kW Kohler
PRICE: $750,000
The Bertram 35 is skinny-water capable, thanks to a set of prop tunnels that augment her deep-V running surface. She draws just 2½ feet.
There she was, berthed in the haulout slip at Bertram’s Tampa facility— the new Bertram 35. A bunch of guys were gathered around, some on board, feverishly finishing a washdown; some on a nearby floating dock, burnishing her “Aristo Blue” Awlcraft paint job; and some standing farther off, clearly admiring an assortment of styling elements and architectural details that obviously owed a great deal to the old, super-popular Bertram 31 but, just as obviously, went many nautical miles beyond her.
My sea trial of the 35 had been a long time coming. I’d first laid eyes on the boat in early May of last year, during a press event at Lyman-Morse in Thomaston, Maine. She’d been
