Interesting boats
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RT Firefly
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Greetings,
Well, I never... Tom McClean plans to sail across the Atlantic in whale-shaped boat called Moby | Daily Mail Online
Well, I never... Tom McClean plans to sail across the Atlantic in whale-shaped boat called Moby | Daily Mail Online
Beautiful boat but just another example of powering that I just don't get: 7 hp per long ton, almost double what a displacement hull can even absorb. That extra 70 hp doesn't even fall into the category of "reserve power."
Maybe it's insecurity. Perhaps guys are afraid that their friends will make fun of them if they tell them they are building a 40ft steel boat with only a 60hp engine?
According to the ad, he is using about 20hp at cruise speed - that's an engine running at 15% load.
Nomad Willy
Guru
There's a good example of a very overpowered boat.
VERY nice boat though. I've seen her about 10yrs ago.
VERY nice boat though. I've seen her about 10yrs ago.
RT Firefly
Enigma
Greetings,
Mr. g. The Japanese perhaps?
Mr. g. The Japanese perhaps?
Rustybarge
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BaltimoreLurker
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- Moon Dance
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- 1974 34' Marine Trader Sedan
Wow, that's pretty!
Sailor of Fortune
Guru
Beautiful boat, but I don't think it has any characteristics with lobster boats.
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Rustybarge
Guru
I think it has a nearly flat deadrise, fine bow entry, and of course the lovely bow shape of a trad lobster boat; but just like you say I doubt if one has ever seen a real lobster except on the barbie. Lol!.
Sailor of Fortune
Guru
Not many lobster boat designs have hard chines, (JC/Eastern, Wesmac excluded), the argument being the trap will catch on the chine. Looks like no full keel on the Sam Devlin boat.
Rustybarge
Guru
You're quite right, I'd forgotten about the keel and skeg on lobster boats; and of course the devlin has an out drive leg instead of the shaft .
Maybe lobster boat replica would be a better description .
seakuv
Member
Just a quick boat ID on a photo posted by Eric at the end of page 9 (several years ago!) - that lapstrake hulled sailboat is actually a fiberglass hull - she's a Nor'Sea 27. I sold mine to a family in Seward five years ago.
Dave
Dave
West
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healhustler
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- Bucky
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- Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Bill....yeah, that boat appeals to me, wannabe windows and all. Of course, I've also been accused of loving ugly boats. Know anymore about it?
CarlinLA
Senior Member
I'm new here, so my opinion may not count for much but in the Trawler World forum - that vessel is everything I would expect a recreational trawler to be.
West
Senior Member
Nothing ugly about this boat ... beauty
klee wyck
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- Domino and Libra
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- Malcom Tennant 20M and Noordzee Kotter 52
I have got a US broker trying to buy it for me but the time zones and language make this slow and tough. She lies about an hour from Amsterdam. Freight will be nearly 1/3 of the final cost of the boat when it gets here but I am completely smitten even from this distance. Unless there is trouble with the hull, I can swallow about anything else I expect.
Thanks for the link! She's an intriguing design. Even has a joystick rudder control-
power steering.I didn't see any engine room shots, so it might be a little disorderly down there. I wanted to see that 320 hp V10, I never saw a Mercedes in a boat before.
klee wyck
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- Malcom Tennant 20M and Noordzee Kotter 52
The engine room is a bit cluttered as thirty year old engine rooms with add ins tend to be, but pretty decent overall. The Dutch brokers do not seem to like engine room pictures and they barely refer to engines and mechanicals in their ads. You have to pull it out of them. They prefer to show the bling on the interiors it seems and this one has plenty. The European listing has more pictures.
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Rustybarge
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The dutch make some lovely barge inspired designs.
I like this simple kotter(?) design with the vertical stem..
I like this simple kotter(?) design with the vertical stem..
Rustybarge
Guru
I think it maybe what we call a fortress type anchor here in the UK; or a deriviate of one.
I like the engine room clogs in the crate too!
