[PUP] Full walk-around versus asymmetrical versus no walk-around

[John Marshall]

Scott,
	I wrote it off to the seeming tendency for every Nordhavn owner to be  
working on moving up to the next sized boat. <grin>

John Marshall
Serendipity - Nordhavn 55-20
Sequim Bay, WA


On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Scott Marks wrote:

> Correction -- "...our Nordhavn 64."  I did not realize I was already
> suffering from the well known boaters disease "4 footitis."
>
> Scott
>
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> Scott Marks
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PUP] Full walk-around versus asymmetrical versus no
> walk-around
>
> We have been very pleased with the asymmetrical design of our  
> Nordhavn 68.
>
> In two years and 12,000 nm of travel, there are very few instances I  
> can
> recall of us NOT being able to safely end up in a starboard side  
> tie.  The
> extra interior room and livability is great and I would make this  
> choice
> again in a heartbeat.
>
> To John Marshall's point, however, we do have the advantage of quite
> powerful hydraulic bow and stern thrusters (35 hp each) driven by a  
> wing
> engine typically running at 1700 to 2100 rpm during docking  
> operations -- no
> problem with wimpy thrusters that have to be "babied."  We also have a
> boarding door on the port side of the aft cockpit for those rare  
> occasions
> when we end up in a port side tie.
>
> Scott Marks
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