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04-06-2013, 12:18 AM
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Veteran Member
City: Ohio
Vessel Name: Kispiox
Vessel Model: mercury 430 Ocean Runner
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 26
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What is the Boat in the Picture on the Top of this Website?
Anybody got an answer for that?
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04-06-2013, 12:21 AM
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Guru
City: Seattle, WA
Vessel Name: Pau Hana
Vessel Model: 1989 PT52 Overseas Yachtfisher
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,656
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Looks like a Selene to me....
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Peter- Marine Insurance Guru at Novamar Insurance Group (206-350-5051) & tuna fishing addict!
1989 52' PT Overseas yachtfisher
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04-06-2013, 12:39 AM
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Guru
City: Hotel, CA
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 8,323
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Selene 60. I believe it is named Wild Blue.
Selene Owners Site & Forum
Edit* Sorry Selene 53
http://mvwildblue.blogspot.com/
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Craig
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled - Mark Twain
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04-06-2013, 12:39 AM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Selene as Peter said. Nice boat, made in the PRC, albeit with stupid wannabe windows in the pilothouse. If they'd fix that they'd have a pretty decent-looking boat. Not as nice as a deFever 46 or a Fleming 55 or an Alaskan 49 but okay looking nevertheless.
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04-06-2013, 01:00 AM
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Veteran Member
City: Ohio
Vessel Name: Kispiox
Vessel Model: mercury 430 Ocean Runner
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 26
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I love this site. Ask a question....get an answer quick. Very cool of You Folks. Love the passion You guys have for this!
"PRC" China?
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04-06-2013, 01:20 AM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trekker
"PRC" China?
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People's Republic of China. Nordhavn's are built there, too, in Xiamen. At least the larger ones. We've filmed the plant there.
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04-06-2013, 08:49 AM
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Guru
City: Port Townsend Washington
Vessel Name: " OTTER "
Vessel Model: Ocean Alexander Europa 40
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,322
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marin
Selene as Peter said. Nice boat, made in the PRC, albeit with stupid wannabe windows in the pilothouse.
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Marin,
You need to learn not to mask how you really feel !
Personally I wouldn't the bridge on a trawler I expected to use at night without those windows
HOLLYWOOD
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04-06-2013, 09:54 AM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,726
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04-06-2013, 02:05 PM
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Senior Member
City: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Vessel Model: I have keys to lots of boats...
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 438
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I like those stupid wannabee windows in Florida as there is less sun coming into the pilothouse, and less need of sun shades on the outside of the windows when you are at the dock. Plus there is more room to mount electronics in a display above the helm.
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04-06-2013, 02:13 PM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,529
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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04-06-2013, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member
City: Hampton Bays, N.Y.
Vessel Name: Grand Yankee
Vessel Model: 1981 49' Grand Banks Classic
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 328
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Right On Tucker. My 50' Cherubini Independence trawler has them and your reasons are correct. At 10 knots I am not worried about aerodynamic air flow.
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04-06-2013, 04:06 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Wannabe windows are functional, no question, for boats that truly need the benefits.
But in our opinions they are butt-ugly and totally destroy the aesthetcs of any boat that has them. And as we are not interested in operating a butt-ugly boat, we will never have a boat with them.
For recreational cruising, at least in the daytime, they offer zero advantage that we can see unless your pilothouse is so cramped that you have no choice but to mount instruments overhead. In which case we would never buy that boat, either, for that reason.
We have no glare issues at all with our "normal" forward windows but perhaps that's because American Marine intelligently designed a nice looking flying bridge overhang to take care of that.
All this is strictly my opinion of course. Beauty or aesthetics is totally in the eye of the beholder. But when I see a boat with wannabe windows, particulary a recreational boat, my immediate reaction is "boy, they sure screwed that design up," and I instantly dismiss that boat as not being worth looking at anymore. It becomes a "non boat" to me. 
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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04-06-2013, 04:16 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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...and it's easier to see when it's snowing...
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"The most interesting path between two points is not a straight line" MurrayM
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04-06-2013, 05:19 PM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,189
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Wannabee windows? I'm guilty, but we've been over this. Here's the link to the thread "Wannabee Windows"
http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s...dows-2717.html
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04-07-2013, 12:36 AM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,715
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Quote:
Originally Posted by markpierce
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That didn't take long.
Hard to believe it's been over a year with the new software!
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04-07-2013, 12:47 AM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,529
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Done that "wannabee" discussion a couple of times before. This time decided (hopefully) to just observe and enjoy.
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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04-07-2013, 12:50 AM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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Hard to have a fiery argument when you have the fuel on 'ignore' 
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"The most interesting path between two points is not a straight line" MurrayM
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04-07-2013, 12:53 AM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,529
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Can't resist. ... Don't you just hate forward-leaning, wannabee pilothouse windows? Well, it's function over style.
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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04-07-2013, 01:20 AM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,715
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If nothing else, I always thought fwd sloped windows would be better at night with interior light reflections.
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04-07-2013, 04:16 AM
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Senior Member
City: North Vancouver
Vessel Name: INFINITY ∞
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 62
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 249
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the forward raked windows work for us...
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