islands50
2012-03-23 21:50:27
In my never ending crazy ideas, and then again after the last and very informative, chatter on new boats, I remembered a set of plans I bought a few years ago, went to dig them out amnd found my puppies did the normal cat thing on them, yet that is beyond the point.
The basic hull is laid out at 37 ft, but can be streched at least 6 ft by just adding another frame, this puts it into the lenth we were talking about in the last large dicussion. This basic design seems to be the popular move in the UK, and I am looking for feed back about it's use as a troller. I find some of the English, and Irish, desginers are also going twords this basic layout.
this is the on line discription from the web site
"Beam 15'. Draught single engine 4'. Draught twin installation 3'6".
A good sea boat for offshore all weather work. Will handle twin
engines from 50hp upwards or singles from 100hp up (high speed diesels).
Or smaller for high torque low revving diesels. Accommodation in
forward cabin for 4 crew plus pilot berth in wheelhouse if needed.
Ease of construction with all frames formed on straight lines with
no compound curves in the plates."
lone eagle
2012-03-24 00:11:47
British boats tend to be different in a couple of respects, most harbours go dry at low tide and the boats sit upright in the mud, and they cram alot of boat into a small length because of permit length. Catamaran hulls are not quirky over there.In the US I've seen old pws seiners and BB gillneters converted to trollers and wondered how they behaved in a swell at slow speed. Thought of buying a 32'rawson or 36'westport ....I'd like some input too.
islands50
2012-03-24 01:32:22
As I remember the plans before they ended up as a litter box, and again my fault, this one did not have a real flat bottom but more like a Gulf shrimper. Yes the Brit's do have a very high and low tide range.
I guess we will have to wait and see what some of the more experianced, members have to say, and their input, since this is idea of what might work, taking a look outside of the box so to speak.