Sailors Powerboat

MisterMoon

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This sailor bought a powerboat yesterday: a 24’ deck boat. Not really a sailors powerboat, but it’s nice and will be comfortable during the summer when it’s too hot, windless, and wake strewn on our lake to sail.  It has the largest engine in anything I have ever owned, a 5.7 liter Volvo duoprop. 

 
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I never understood how the big sport fishers can have those enclosed transoms and ship so much water over the stern.  Seems like the engines would flood, or at least the sliding doors would leak something horrible since it would take 30 min to pump all that water out...

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Water tight doors, usually 2, one leading into the rod and gear storage, second door to engine room itself.

Always kept dogged down underway.

And watertight deck hatches in the fish cockpit.

Sliding entry is above fishing cockpit level.

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Somebody Else

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jerseyguy said:
At least a half dozen folks I used to race with or against are now sporting 19’-23’ center console boats. 
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Just like sailing!

  • Almost zero protection from the elements with all the opportunity to get soaking wet.
  • Just like an Etchells, no way to fuck and not have everyone watching.
  • Girlfriend's gotta wee-wee. Uh oh! At best there might be a head in the console where her hair can get tangled in the steering cables.
 
fastyacht

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Somebody Else said:
Just like sailing!

  • Almost zero protection from the elements with all the opportunity to get soaking wet.
  • Just like an Etchells, no way to fuck and not have everyone watching.
  • Girlfriend's gotta wee-wee. Uh oh! At best there might be a head in the console where her hair can get tangled in the steering cables.
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One of my absolute design requirements on center consoles is at least one padded seating area with 6"6" of length....

 
Alaris

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D Wayne G

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Interesting to see that MOST folks think the transition from sailing to power should be a slow displacement Trawler type boat. OK fine. Me? I went for an Axopar 28. Cruise at 28/30 kts. Still have my sailboat, it’s fast too. 

 
ProaSailor

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D Wayne G said:
Cruise at 28/30 kts.
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"Tolman Alaskan Skiff" ("Jumbo") I have  mentioned in other threads (video added below, different boat):

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Plywood/epoxy/fiberglass construction, 25.5' (he stretched a 24' design slightly), light weight, BEAUTIFUL!

The guy and his wife live north of Seattle and have taken the boat from there all the way to Sitka, Alaska, on the water, ~800+ miles each way as the crow flies.  They are towing it to Florida for the second time where they take it to the Bahamas.  When on the trailer, they use it like an RV.  Very impressive.

https://www.tolmanskiffs.com/
https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/jumbo/?fbclid=IwAR1MYX9a4r1Njn1wzm2tmf5mQIt-1ejNz3UWAq6-9q48I2fnjT_26GGRdOM
https://www.woodenboat.com/boat-plans-kits/tolman-skiff-jumbo
https://www.proboat.com/2014/09/renn-tolman-and-his-high-endurance-skiff/





And some mileage estimates for a different 24 foot Tolman Jumbo from here (Bend, Oregon): 
https://www.ifish.net/board/showpost.php?s=862c362a7a1278ad79b716c5baa4c99d&p=4449422

  • 5.00 MPG @ 16.5 knots
  • 4.83 MPG @ 21 knots
  • 3.11 MPG @ 30 knots
  • 2.66 MPG @ 33.5 knots

Good numbers!

 
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