On 3/18/2014 6:34 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 3/17/14, 6:21 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
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Those are big, smoked glass windows that are in the master stateroom.
Here's another video where the guy is showing the boat internal areas.
(It starts out looking like the other video, but is different). He gets
to the main stateroom about 2/3rds of the way through the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3LYpdEkAQ
I personally just don't "get" having a boat like that.
You give up a lot of seaworthiness, ease of maintenance, fuel
consumption and reliability for totally unnecessary "creature comforts."
Fuel consumption is a product of hull design and weight.
But different strokes.
If I had the money to spend I'd design a light trawler capable of 15
mpg. Maybe 6 knots cruising speed. Or a cat.
It can be done. Wouldn't be a nice ride in heavy seas.
So stay away from them.
But "the need for speed" is great among us.
I don't know how you would end up with a trawler, light or otherwise,
that would get 15 mpg, but I agree with your points about boats that
seem just too damned large, in terms of running costs, maintenance,
handling, inability to go into shallow waters, et cetera. Different
strokes.
When we lived in Florida and fished in the St. Johns River from time to
time, I used to look in wonder at some of the smaller pleasure trawlers
bucking the outflow current and trying to make progress getting into
Jacksonville. Some of them seemingly made no headway at all against the
current, and a few times I saw a couple of the boats simply anchor until
the tide shifted or the current abated.
Not unusual at all for sailboat people. It's very common for them to
plan their transit in high current areas at "slack" tide.
The Cape Cod Canal develops currents as much as 6 knots during tide
cycles and most sailboaters time their transit to either go *with* the
current or wait until slack tide to transit in the opposite direction.
It's fun to watch even big powerboats make the transit. The speed limit
in the canal is 5 knots and you'll see big boats hull high pushing their
way through against the current.
I made the mistake of taking the Grand Banks through the CCC against the
current. It made it ok but the people jogging or walking on the side of
the canal going in the same direction waved at me as they passed me.
The Grand Banks chugged it's way through though with the throttle at
normal cruise setting or maybe a little more and the GPS reading my
speed at about 2 knots at one point.
The only danger in the canal is a railroad bridge that lowers twice a
day to allow the train to pass. Boats have to wait in the canal while
the bridge is lowered. There have been accidents when an underpowered
boat is going *with* the current, approaching the bridge and suddenly
the horn goes off and the bridge lowers. You have to come about and
hopefully hold your position against the current.