Idlewild is a very cool boat, and I really like that design - especially the 'garage' for the tender in the stern. I expect they will show some decrease in boat speed or slight increase in fuel consumption now that they have fitted paravanes on her, but at least she won't be rolling 40 degrees. Those Albertans are tough customers! Not to push the point too hard, but if I slow Delfin down to the 6.4 knots they crossed from Africa to Australia, we would burn around 2.3 gph. Still more, but not too inefficient especially considering we outweigh Idlewild by 100,000 pounds, although I would have to burn more fuel to blow out the slobber after running at 1100 rpm using 40 hp for days at a time.....
I'm re-reading Hal Roth's "Chasing the Long Rainbow" about an early BOC single handed circumnavigation race. I think 4 of the 18 boats hit "something" during the race that caused damage and one fatality. Suspects included submerged shipping containers, submarines and whales. Having hit a sleeping whale in pitch black darkness myself in the Pacific, I appreciate the desirability of a very stout hull that can hit something with much reduced chances of holing, which is why I like steel and bilge tankage. I often wonder what would happen to Wind Horse's aluminum hull if it hit a lost cargo container in the middle of the night at 11 knots. I read that 10,000 such containers are lost annually.I much agree with you, Delfin. And, I feel there is little to nothing (I know of) that can substitute for good sea keeping hull design, sheer bulk, and slower speeds with plenty of back-up power when necessary if BIG-Waves/High-winds are encountered. If I were to choose my boat for open ocean, cross continent power boat cruising yours is the one I'd want to pilot or simply be aboard. Water and air in their movements and needs for interaction with solid objects have uncanny and vast similarities. I design utility scale apparatus that works with extreme solar heated air temps utilizing the airflow buoyancy that is created. Also, I really do love boats!
I certainly agree on the Tollycraft boats. Yours was built before they really knew how long fiberglass would last, or how strong it should be, so they are built like the proverbial brick outhouse. Uniflite's of that era are similar, and are much desired here in the NW by people looking for a really strong fishing boat to re-power and take offshore for salmon/tuna/halibut fishing. For 99.9% of the usage that most all pleasure boats encounter, fiberglass is really, really hard to beat, especially when overbuilt like a Tolly. For long range cruisingDelfin
In a much narrower range of use than your ocean worthy craft, one of the most inviting/significant build-out parameters that attract me to Tollycraft boats (for use conditions we currently require) is their superior lay-up, resins, and thickness used in hull construction sequences. Bottom of our 1977 34’ Tolly tri cabin is from .75” at stern to a full 1.5” thick at bow area, virtually indestructible regarding a large scale holing or collapse. Days of yore, in the 60’s... I plied NY waters and spent many times avoiding flotsam collisions in Hells Gate. Also, having hit what we believed was a huge great white at dusk off Boston Harbor, we were very glad the 38’ raised deck sport fisher was constructed like a tank, having been custom built in early 50’s at Freeport Point Shipbuilders for the lead carpenter/shipwright of Brooklyn Navy Yard. Soooo... I truly appreciate your understanding of “might makes right” regarding unexpected collisions of a sturdy-constructed hull to semi submerged objects/items. Power On!
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I would suggest maybe not so much. Zopilote was about as skookum a fiberglass hull as you are likely to find, but sank after hitting a reef in the South Pacific. My understanding is that she wasn't holed initially, but the reef ground through the fiberglass as she worked in the waves. Now re-built, she's a wonderful vessel, and as long as she doesn't try to make any more trips overland is probably strong enough.I certainly agree on the Tollycraft boats. Yours was built before they really knew how long fiberglass would last, or how strong it should be, so they are built like the proverbial brick outhouse. Uniflite's of that era are similar, and are much desired here in the NW by people looking for a really strong fishing boat to re-power and take offshore for salmon/tuna/halibut fishing. For 99.9% of the usage that most all pleasure boats encounter, fiberglass is really, really hard to beat, especially when overbuilt like a Tolly. For long range cruising
Marin, is there any rationale for this naming protocol other than product differentiation for marketing? Doesn't seem like it, but you would know...
I think Marin pretty much settles the question, Lois. None of us have the slightest clue what the difference is between a trawler and a motor yacht. I'm going to start referring to Delfin as a boat. I suggest you go buy one.Carl--- The first GBs were tri-cabins so when other configurations began appearing perhaps "Classic" seemed as good a sales brochure name as any other for the tri-cabin configuration. The "classic original."
I don't know if American Marine cooked up the name Europa on their own or if it was an existing configuration name that they simply capitalized and turned into a model name. I assume it comes from the streamlined supports for the side deck overheads as this was a not-uncommon feature of European vessels. Plus it sounds exotic and worldly.
Why they chose Motoryacht for the name of their full width aft cabin model I have no idea. Probably thought it sounded upmarket.
Other than the Classic I expect the rest of their names were strictly marketing concoctions based on an image they wanted to create in potential buyers' minds. Like the fast planing boat they came out with in the seventies, the Laguna.
Or "trawler," although American Marine never used that term to describe their boats.
Product names can be fascinating things to learn the origins of. I had a role in coming up with the name MAX for our new 737 model, and the way we arrived at that name is pretty interesting.
Usually after going on enough boats, you will gravitate to s certain size/lay out of boat, which limits/narrow down the number of boats. My wife had her list of must haves, and when she walk onto the Eagle, she just knew it was the boat for her. I was in shock and not a happy campers. From the first time I saw the Eagle it’s been the Slow Ugly Boat, and I still call her that to this day.
Albeit, landed in water for a bite if seafood!! 
