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Old 08-30-2012, 12:57 AM   #23
Marin
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Nope, not this time. I truly hate creeping along at 8 knots. It's tiring, it's boring, and it's a giant waste of time. If we didn't have money earmarked for other things we'd be rid of the GB in a heartbeat and buy a 15-20 knot boat and run it at that speed.

We enjoy being out on the water and seeing what there is to see but we find we see just as much and enjoy it just as much at 30 mph in the small boat as we do at 8 knots in the GB. The difference is that things are constantly changing and we are constantly seeing new things at 30 mph where things just ooze by at 8 knots and it's like being stuck in Groundhog Day.

I have no time for nor tolerance of slow. We do it because going fast has not become a high enough priority in our cruising to do anything about it. However we have been thinking more and more seriously about repowering our old boat to at least get up in the 13-15 knot range. We'll see......
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