T&T: Boats as Ar

[Rock Bradford]

i think the real problem is that many of the folks on this list have bought
the marketing of the name trawler, hook line and sinker.  why in the world
would someone want a real trawler to do the loop?  having a boat that is not
a true trawler is not something to be ashamed of; it's your boat, you bought
it and i hope you enjoy it -- but it's not a trawler.  nest time, if you
want a trawler, go out and buy a real one.  our 44' cygnus, "magpie," was
built in england in the mid-80's, one of 700+ commercial hulls now fishing
all over the world.  "magpie" was finished as a yacht in 1983.  44' on deck,
17' beam, 7'6" draft and the last time we had her hauled, she weighed in @
90,000#.  she has a gardner 8LXB, 170 hp, naturally aspirated and she
cruises at 7.5 kts @ 1150 rpm, usually burning 3.2-3.5 gph.  her rudder is
3' x 5'.  we took her to bermuda in may, through the tail end of tropical
storm andrea (20' seas for 3-days) which was less than pleasant, but
sometimes it's just like that.  we really had no problems 'cept two of our
crew mutineed and flew home.  spent three weeks in bermuda and then back to
charleston,sc.  i've done this fifteen times on sailboats, so it really
wasn't a big deal . . . but you do need to have the right boat.  a trawler,
a real one.  so-o-o-o, call your boat a trawler if you wish, but don't start
believing the hype.

Rock Bradford
"Magpie"  44' Cygnus
Georgetown, SC

On 8/21/07, Kevin Kearney <lotusman1951 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >From ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENCE, What is good and what is
> not good, do we need others to tell us these things? , Thoreau's
> SIMPLIFY-SIMPLIFY, and now the current marketing word from the mega yacht
> world SWANING, For 2 months this past winter I enjoyed the hospitality of
> Jones Fruit Dock in Vero Beach and watched with peaceful contemplation the
> parade of boats on the ICW. Its all in the wake-beautiful mobile art-as it
> swans past leaves a ripple, people/captains who economically operate their
> vessels at1.1/1.2-not 1.34  and beyond.Those that push a mountain of
> water  in front of their bow,well beyond the the design of their hull with
> more horsepower than they need and never achieve plane beyond being XXX,
> well-they are not art and not trawlers. At 1.125 times the square root of
> my waterline, round ass, bulbed bow, hard chined, 28hp to push the boat at a
> designed 7.11knots 1200rpm/3:1/34inch prop, 45,000pounds, used 750gallons
> Annapolis to the Bahamas and back 2X,
> did not even check the fuel level till the New River--I can't imagine
> people bragging about 4-6 gallons an hour being reasonable or trawler like,
> and then making sport at others.
>
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