Sailors Powerboat
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The reference lengths are different. For the cylinder it's the diameter. For the airfoil it's the chord length.
1sailor
Super Anarchist
these things are not real practical other than being pretty, and being good for low-speed cocktail cruising around the harbor. thankfully, that's good enough
pretty much standard equipment in her home waters, harbor springs MI
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pretty much standard equipment in her home waters, harbor springs MI
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carcrash
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There are good and bad things about jet drives. After owning one, in my personal use, the bad outweighed the good by a significant margin. But others might have positive experiences.
Anyone enjoy owning one for awhile?
Pertinacious Tom
Importunate Member
It was 31 and yes, but I'd call both powerboater's powerboats. Beating everyone to Nassau was impressive and made the company but it was a wet, brute force approach. Enough deadrise and enough power means you can dash across a nasty Gulfstream but it's inefficient for anything else.
Those boats are still restored by classic plastic buffs and are among few old boats that defy the "dime to the dollar" rule that says each dollar spent on an old boat increases resale value by a dime. It's closer to 90 cents on an old Bertram so you can go broke restoring them at a much slower rate.
fastyacht
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LAst summer I actually ended up next to a fully restored 31 on route 84 as I was driving through Danbury CT!
Matagi
Super Antichrist
Splendid.
Love the looks and it has so many cool ideas (the seats alone are genius).
Bonus points: it's wood.
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Russell Brown
Super Anarchist
What a cool boat! The detailing is kind of amazing. Hard to figure how it can be a budget production boat and be wood at the same time. I'd love to see their operation. Happy to hear talk about wood and sustainability and even happier to hear mainstream talk about wood being a really light way to build.
Sail4beer
Starboard!
I love plywood composite boats, they have so much strength, are wonderfully stiff and can look very impressive at a moderate cost. I finished a Norwalk Island Sharpie in that way and it was light and fast.
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nige
Super Anarchist
What a great looking boat. I have a hard time believing they can build it for 150k (GBP) including engines and taxes and stay in business, but fingers crossed, its a great combination of the pros without many of the cons. (I am not a wood fan but understand why its a good solution
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Sail4beer
Starboard!
Saw a price of $170,000 US. Seems a little low for such a nice, well built boat.
Matagi
Super Antichrist
Swallow Yachts have been around for a while, they are doing some fantastic sailboats, too, that's where they started. The Coast 250 is essentially a motorsailor, but in fact one of the best sailboats I can think of, great looking as well, in my view.
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Autonomous
Turgid Member
The Whisper 300 is a breath of fresh air. Like!
On mine (Ha!) they'll delete some of the fancy bits. I don't need two dozen wine glasses or a park bench on the transom, etc. It will have an Alaskan bulkhead and sliding side windows though.
On mine (Ha!) they'll delete some of the fancy bits. I don't need two dozen wine glasses or a park bench on the transom, etc. It will have an Alaskan bulkhead and sliding side windows though.
jnye
Member
Another downeast, this time a Newman 36.
Hitchhiker
Hoopy Frood
This one just got splashed. Have to agree with @Lochnerian Tom. They really are a powerboater's powerboat.
steele
Super Anarchist
It is surprising what you can do with good quaility plywood. This tubby little kayak is 10' x 2 /12'. The fordeck is concave just in front of the cockpit side to side, and convex for and aft at the bow. Getting the rest of wood to bend to such a short wide shape wasn't easy, but it worked.
