Sailors Powerboat
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Beer fueled Mayhem
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I saw one of these (I think it was smaller than yours...) near Rich's Passage by Bremerton. Name of the boat...Actual Size. :lol: :lol:Our C-Dory 22 was a good, easy to find and inexpensive sailor's power boat. It would plane at 10 knots and 14 knots was it's sweet spot for me. On the issue of twins, with it's ~5° deadrise two lower units in the water helped in a following sea. Very efficient but too slow for most power boaters. They are loved by the people they suite, though.
It was good for multi week outings if you planned every third night at a marina for showers and ice cream.
Coming into the dock at Sequim Bay. Bonus question. Can anyone identify the anchor brand?
Autonomous
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When I saw my first one at a dealer the price shocked me too. It took a few years before I could appreciate them, they attract mature boaters that know what works. I sold mine earlier this year for $4,000 less than I paid for it 15 years ago. The C-Brats group and site is very good.
The anchor I tried to get you guys to bite on is a HydroBubble. Good anchor for a spare as it breaks down.
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Russell Brown
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Anyone ridden on an Aspen? I'd like to hear more about them from someone who's been on one.
kimbottles
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I have driven one Russell. We are overdue for a phone call so I will call you and we can chat.
Russell Brown
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It's definitely not a proa, just a slightly asymmetrical catamaran (to allow single engine power). They look really clean at speed.
Look forward to hearing from you, Kim.
Look forward to hearing from you, Kim.
nige
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I'd love one of you to share he readers digest of the conv about the aspen's. My gut tells me there must be some quirky steering/motion trade offs in certain conditions but the efficiency pro's must be strong??
socalrider
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I second that - interested in hearing your impressions.
My armchair impression: they look great, but seem to be extremely pricey (~$1m base price for the 40' I think)
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kimbottles
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I found the steering “quirky” and close maneuvering REQUIRED the thruster. They track as if on rails, but I found the steering very heavy in a turn. We did not buy it (which was good because then we found the Tim Kernan custom monohull which we really like.)
Hey any catamaran or "slightly off" catamaran with 1 engine in one hull will be very challenging to dock. With our 40' cat with a single diesel in one hull, if we were docking and the auxiliary outboard on the other hull wasn't working my wife would curse me.
Actually you could do the same on the Aspen - drive it on the inboard diesel 98% of the time and use a small outboard (instead of a thruster) on the other hull as the "get home" engine or just for docking. Also would mess with people's minds because they would only see the little outboard.
Sail4beer
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Got better with Russell’s pics of his ideas and that Ultimate 30 mod has me dreaming of a low power consumption powerboat again. I had that Fareast28R that had been dismasted when I bought it. My brother constantly nagged me to put a 15 hp outboard on it and go fishing, but I just couldn’t do it or I’d never sail it or sell it. Dreadnought bow and 9’ beam carried aft would have been fast and stable with no wake.
I bought a new mast and sold the boat instead, but I’ll have to keep my eye open for another potential, efficient power conversion. Maybe solar electric…
Greyhound37
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If you sail a J Boat, you should also own a MJM.
Waiex191
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Powerboats don't really float my, uh, boat. But I could see building something like this:
https://www.boatdesigns.com/products.asp?dept=721
https://www.boatdesigns.com/products.asp?dept=721
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socalrider
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Oooh...Powerboats don't really float my, uh, boat. But I could see building something like this:
https://www.boatdesigns.com/products.asp?dept=721
I'd look at pairing with something like this https://www.torqeedo.com/us/en-us/products/inboards/deep-blue-100kw-2400i/000-01054.html
DarthSailor
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Waiex191
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That is cool, but I guess there are 3 things that attract me personally to this type of boat:
1) The project. I am a project sort of person.
2) The looks
3) The sound
So electric propulsion, though cool, would not meet my objective for number 3.
Great Red Shark
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My neighbor - a salty dog of a sailor, bought this Chris Craft West Indian 36 for mainland cruising down on the west coast of FL - it's up in Canada now -they love living aboard for a season - but he loves this pic, parked with all the massive sportsfishers in the Carolinas, looking like a toy.
