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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.

That's why I mentioned "cat". Should have said "tri".
There are "cat-trawlers" and while not the "traditional" trawler, I'm
not very traditional.
Here's a power cat that will get 29 mpg at 5 knots.
19 mpg at 8 knots.
http://www.multihulldesigns.com/desi...ock/38tri.html
You can accept or reject that mpg figure.


But you have the flexibility to to move at 12 knots with the expected
fuel consumption penalty, taking care of most inlet problems slow
trawlers encounter.
But the hull design and weight make it "possible."
It all in the hull design and weight.
There's probably similar designs, but they don't sell.
I can't speak to its handling and "seaworthiness."
You pay for taking your house with you, and some people prefer that.
It's light, and you'll have to keep it light.
You'll have to accept its handling an sea-keeping characteristics.
You'll have to resist pushing the throttle forward.


Range specs:
Range-38? Power Trimaran

Honda 15 hp

Full load, both engines at top speed (5,800rpm).
Fuel consumption is 1.412 gph. per engine
Speed is 12.3 knots.
100 gallons fuel gives 435 nautical miles


Half load, both engines at mid speed (4,000rpm).
Fuel consumption is 0.62 gph. per engine
Speed is 11 knots.
100 gallons fuel gives 887 nautical miles


Half load, one engine at low mid speed (3,000rpm).
Fuel consumption is 0.407 gph. per engine
Speed is 8 knots.
100 gallons fuel gives 1,965 nautical miles


Minimal load, one engine at low speed (2,000rpm).
Fuel consumption is 0.169 gph. per engine
Speed is estimated at 5 knots.
100 gallons fuel gives 2,958 nautical miles