Interesting boats

[OldDan1943]

Oh, I don’t know...following Arctic Terns on their 12,000 mile per year migratory path for a few seasons might be a cool thing to do

Gotta stop in for food somewhere too.

 

[OldDan1943]

Saw it on the hard at Port Townsend in September. A true beauty.

Have they drawn the MegaMillions yet?

I didn't win and I doubt if you won either. LOL

 

[Pack Mule]

Ok here is the link for the 1990 Custom Musser Senour 48
Galt Won. Check out the videos also.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1990/custom-musser-senour-48-3472809/?refSource=standard listing

 

[Wayfarer]

Ok here is the link for the 1990 Custom Musser Senour 48
Galt Won. Check out the videos also.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1990/custom-musser-senour-48-3472809/?refSource=standard listing

Well I'm completely in love.

 

[OldDan1943]

Ok here is the link for the 1990 Custom Musser Senour 48
Galt Won. Check out the videos also.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1990/custom-musser-senour-48-3472809/?refSource=standard listing

Yachtworld no longer lets me view their offerings.

 

[OldDan1943]

Well I'm completely in love.

So when is the wedding?

 

[MurrayM]

Pretty nice stern .

Is that an extension on what once was a flat transom?

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Quite eccentric decor but nice. Pretty well the only thing I might question is the use of what appears to be ceramic tiles in the ER. Slipperier than a wet eel if a bit oily IMO.

 

[MurrayM]

Schucker 50 motorsailer: Schucker 50 yacht for sale

 

[MurrayM]

Schucker 50 trawler: https://www.boatdealers.ca/boats-for-sale/160184/schucker-trawler-sailboat-hull-port-dover-ontario

 

[Northern Spy]

Galt Won checks a lot of boxes for me. At least the romantic version of what a PNW cruiser should be. Love it. I can see a lot of resemblance to the fixtures on Northern Spy, as it is the same vintage. Looks just like something out of one of Ferenc Mate's, "The Finely Fitted Yacht" volumes.

 

[cardude01]

Cool motorsailer. Nice size pilothouse. Good size engine room. Keel cooled, dry stack exhaust.

Fly to Hawaii and sail home after you explore the south Pacific!

https://pilothousemotorsailer.wordpress.com

 

[bogranjac1]

Spotted this stunning boat in the Johnston River Innisfail FNQ.
She's wood, originally from Tasmania and was a cray boat in a previous life and powered with a Gardner 6. I liked how the owner retained the pot pulling winch on the starboard side - would make a ripping good winch to apply stern anchor tension and retrieval.

 

[MurrayM]

Spotted this stunning boat in the Johnston River Innisfail FNQ.
She's wood, originally from Tasmania and was a cray boat in a previous life. Wooden and powered with a Gardner 6. I liked how the owner retained the pot pulling winch on the starboard side - would make a ripping good winch to apply stern anchor tension and retrieval.

Dang purdy arse!

 

[MurrayM]

45' old school North Sea motorsailer: Boat for sale - Inchcape 45 Motor Sailer - 45'

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Not an ER picture in sight and what the heck is Roplene? Best I could figure is wood covered with FRP of some sort...

 

[MurrayM]

Greetings,
Not an ER picture in sight and what the heck is Roplene? Best I could figure is wood covered with FRP of some sort...

I liked the robust gnarly weather shrugging form.

Not sure about the roplene thing either...best I could find after a 15 second search was that it is plastic, as in roto-molded plastic.

Apparently there were some commercial sized fishing boats made ‘across the pond’ with this method, but the motorsailer listed is described as having a wood hull.

 

[OldDan1943]

Greetings,
Not an ER picture in sight and what the heck is Roplene? Best I could figure is wood covered with FRP of some sort...

Yea, disappointed about the lack of ER pictures.

www.thehulltruth.com/.../449892-roplene.html
Roplene is LDPE plastic (low density polyethylene) The boats are roto-molded as one piece with no hull/deck joint. The hulls are more flexible than fiberglass and they absorb shock well. They are kind of a pain to attach things like accessories and applying bottom paint so that it doesn't peel off is challenging.

 

[Genecop]

Ok here is the link for the 1990 Custom Musser Senour 48
Galt Won. Check out the videos also.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1990/custom-musser-senour-48-3472809/?refSource=standard listing

That boat has much going for it...50’ pretty deep draft and nice beam, but I could not find a decent master stateroom...maybe sleep outside on the big aft deck....

 

[ben2go]

Yea, disappointed about the lack of ER pictures.

www.thehulltruth.com/.../449892-roplene.html
Roplene is LDPE plastic (low density polyethylene) The boats are roto-molded as one piece with no hull/deck joint. The hulls are more flexible than fiberglass and they absorb shock well. They are kind of a pain to attach things like accessories and applying bottom paint so that it doesn't peel off is challenging.

A Clorox bottle with an engine and sails. :lol:

 

[Paul in Saudi]

(There, I just clicked through all the pages of this thread.)

 

[Art]

Yea, disappointed about the lack of ER pictures.

www.thehulltruth.com/.../449892-roplene.html
Roplene is LDPE plastic (low density polyethylene) The boats are roto-molded as one piece with no hull/deck joint. The hulls are more flexible than fiberglass and they absorb shock well. They are kind of a pain to attach things like accessories and applying bottom paint so that it doesn't peel off is challenging.

Nother item on Roplene. That material interests me.

Tough Boat - Boating World

 

[Greg S]

Nother item on Roplene. That material interests me.

Tough Boat - Boating World

I have a 15 foot tri-hull (15' Boston Whaler clone) made of the Roplene material. I love it but mine isn't finished all smooth and fancy like the Triumph in your link. Mine was an unfinished hull from a builder that went bust not long after getting started. Kind of a rough industrial finish that I complimented with galvanized cleats and hardware when I finished her. Thick material, reported to be at least 1/2 inch thick minimum. I believe it. Smooth ride, reportedly due to flex similar to a wood hull. Doesn't have the loud slap from waves like GRP and aluminum. Did I say mine is an EXACT duplicate of an early 15' Boston Whaler. Obviously used one for a plug for the mold.

 

[Art]

I have a 15 foot tri-hull (15' Boston Whaler clone) made of the Roplene material. I love it but mine isn't finished all smooth and fancy like the Triumph in your link. Mine was an unfinished hull from a builder that went bust not long after getting started. Kind of a rough industrial finish that I complimented with galvanized cleats and hardware when I finished her. Thick material, reported to be at least 1/2 inch thick minimum. I believe it. Smooth ride, reportedly due to flex similar to a wood hull. Doesn't have the loud slap from waves like GRP and aluminum. Did I say mine is an EXACT duplicate of an early 15' Boston Whaler. Obviously used one for a plug for the mold.

Interesting - Thanks!

 

[Conrad]

Looking forward to more information on this newly listed 53' Seaton steel trawler. Love the understated, all business look from the outside.

https://moreboats.com/boats/seaton/pilothouse-trawler/248777

That one has been on the market for a number of years, but apparently has a new broker. The last listing I saw of it was around $100K more and had no interior to speak of.
The Leishman version of Voyaging Under Power featured this model, complete with plans etc. There is at least one other completed version of it out there somewhere, called Sluggo. Or at least that was its name in the past.
This one has an aluminum house.

 

[Kit_L]

Sea Biscuit is now ours, and insured:

She is lying at Horizon Shores Marina, Queensland, and we will be driving her back here to Greenwell Point some time in December. She is 39'6", and displaces 15 tons.

The next step is antifoul, Propspeed, new anodes (she is fully bonded) and the fitting of essential instruments (VHF, radar, GPS). We will be servicing the engine and generator. We will work on her at the marina, and set off only when she's ready.

Thanks to BruceK for the heads-up (and to think: it was only the dog he really liked!).

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. KL. Woohoo! Have fun.

 

[OldDan1943]

Kit_L Welcome to the wonderful world of boating.
".... when it is ready." Make a list of 'must do' so you know when it is ready.
The next layer of 'things to do', you can do next year or when it is convenient.

 

[Kit_L]

Mr RTF: thank you!
OldDan: most definitely; the list is already started. The present list is safety and function only, ahead of the 500-odd NM return journey. Next year is a sabbatical for us (why academics use "sabbatical" instead of "break" I will never know) but 2019 is the year of the fit-out, where we will fit the boat to us.

 

[RT Firefly]

sabbatical (adj.)

1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.