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Old 09-01-2011, 09:56 AM   #39
Marin
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RE: Hull Shapes----Show us your girl's bottom

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nomadwilly wrote:
BUT the vast majority of trawler men are a bit like Marin. He loaths 7 knots and is willing t more fuel to go 8. These semi disp boats are perfect for all such skippers.*
Actually I loath eight knots every bit as much as seven.* If fuel prices were not the factor they are we'd have a boat that did 25 knots.* And while it's the accepted term, semi-displacement is not correct.* That's like saying semi-dead.* The term used by the naval architects I've read articles by--- like Tom Fexas--- is semi-planing.

* Semi-displacement is a marketing term coined to help create the image of boats like CHBs, IGs, etc as being close to the "rugged working trawlers" that the manufacturers think their buyers want to pretend they have.* American Marine, creator of the Grand Banks line of boats, never used the term "semi-displacement" to my knowledge, nor did they ever refer to their Grand Banks line as "trawlers."* Their Grand Banks line was always refered to as "diesel cruisers."
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