GL: Defever 49 for Loop

[Ralph Yost]

Shay
On our Defever 41, we carry a RIB dinghy on davits. We have a 9.9 Mercury 
4-stroke engine that will run the boat extremely fast. It gets up on plane 
easily with my wife and I and our dog. Because the engine is heavy and I 
would not recommend a 4 stroke if starting over, but it was the set up we 
received when we bought the boat from previous owners. It does run well and 
other than the weight, its great.
Dinghy trade-off are smaller dinks are easy to handle and store on deck and 
you can most times leave the engine on if its a 4hp or so. Bigger dinks go 
faster, are drier in rough water and you have some more room. I find that 
most times we dont use the speed as we are slow motoring in an anchorage.
R.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Shay Glass" <shayglass at gmail.com>
To: <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: GL: Defever 49 for Loop


>I thank each of you who have responded to my question about using a Defever
> 49 PH to do the great loop.
>
>
>
> For the vast majority of the trip it will be just my wife and I aboard.  I
> am a little concerned about handling the boat with just two of us aboard,
> but I'm more concerned about the 4'6" draft.  This 1988 Defever PH is
> stabilized, which I suspect for most of the trip would be more of a
> liability than an asset.  The boat has a stated bridge clearance of 17' 
> but
> I assume that can be reduced 3 or so by lowering the bimini and mast.
> Anyone having experience with a 1988 Defever PH, I would appreciate your
> input on bridge clearance with the mast and bimini lowered.
>
>
>
> I didn't mean to stir up the discussion about twins verses single.  My
> preference is a single for simplicity, lower maintenance, additional space
> in the engine room, increased fuel mileage.  But I dont find many boats 
> in
> the 45  50 range that have single engines.
>
>
>
> I want a boat that is large enough to carry a large dingy with a motor 
> large
> enough to easily get up on plane with two adults and 100 lbs of stuff.
>
>
>
> I wasnt asking if the Defever 49 PH would be the best boat for the loop 
> but
> rather are there any reasons why this boat would not be suited for doing 
> the
> loop.  If I was looking to only do the loop I would want a smaller boat. 
> We
> own a slip in the Morehead City Yacht Basin.  And after doing the loop 
> plan
> to travel up and down the east coast with trips to the Bahamas and Keys,
> maybe farther south as we get more experience.  It seems a little larger
> boat would make it easer for us to stay on the hook with more comfort and
> less time in transient slips while not at our home port.
>
>
> --
> Shay Glass
>
> Boatless in NC
>
> 336-710-2188
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