I love them, wondering what engine they have in their belly.Cape Island style Novi boats
....thats before the extreme beam/length phenom happened to bypass length/fisheries regs. Those boats are as seaworthy as any boat made . They are made to fish year round off the coast of Atlantic Canada.
Honestly I am anything but a naval engineer but these boat are used by professionals and better mariner that I would ever be so I guess they know what they are doing. Knowing when they go out for fishing and to have seen a bunch of them roaming around lobster casing they look like pretty seaworthy and I tend to trust these guys who spend their life on the sea, often in weather that would scare most of us pleasure boaters.Jack wrote;
“As any boat can be” ....
So SOF what do you attribute their seaworthyness too .... wide beam?
With that in mind they seem to maybe have a low CG. But I would think that extremely wide and flat bottom would be really hard to control. And I see the boat extends further aft than the bottom. Surely that isn’t an element of seaworthyness?
But I see a lot less top hamper than most west coast boats.
Wonder how much fuel they burn?
Sure I’m not say’in they aren’t seaworthy.
But I see some features or elements of their design that aren’t ideal to that end. You could even get away w calling them a shallow draft vessel .. per the last pic on post #8. Shallow draft boats aren’t usually ultra seaworthy.
You could even get away w calling them a shallow draft vessel .. per the last pic on post #8. Shallow draft boats aren’t usually ultra seaworthy.
It does look shallow but the draft is 6’-2”. I wonder how well these extreme beam boats would track in heavy following seas. Perhaps the keel should be deepened another foot?
I like arm-chairing professionals. You should see me when watching football games