Pic Of The Day

LaRea

This is real on Amazon, can't make this up.  Does your boat or RV need toilet paper?  You can save 8% if you buy it "Used - Like New."  

Ian

Well there are 2 sides……

PickleRick

I want to save on toilet paper by buying used 

Formulaben

LaRea said:

Meanwhile, just down the pier is an 85 Northern Marine called Spellbound that weighs 82 tons.  If you want to cross oceans without spilling your martini, she'd do it.  This internet pic doesn't do her justice.  The foredeck is probably 25 feet above the water.  Yes, she's a heavy girl, but I'd take her home and I'd make her toast in the morning.     

You piqued my curiosity.  I love what I see but it's single engine?!  I never would have imagined...

https://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/spellbound

LaRea

For ocean-crossing yachts, single engine is the key for efficiency and reliability.  If you're making long passages of 15-20 days nonstop, you want a smallish single engine loaded at 60%-70%.  

For emergencies, she probably has a second, smaller engine mounted off to one side with a separate propeller.  That's the wing engine, a.k.a. get-home engine.  

Rich_

Ian

Where was this at?

Rich_

Okemo, VT
One or two more white snow trips this winter then it is warm white sand in February 

Ian

Looked familiar, thought Stratton maybe. Okemo is nice.

Rich_

Did Stratton a few years ago. Very fun. Still not decided for the next trip since we got word last week that the place we had booked at Okemo burnt down in October. Have a line on a place at Mount Snow, but still looking 

Ian

I love Stratton, great mountain.

rasbury

I would love to have learned to ski- lived in the Dakotas as a kid but not much to ski on there...there was a ski resort across the border - an escarpment but my dad way to tight for that sort of extravagant living....always watch it on the Olympics.  We will be in the 30's next week in Central Florida but all you can do is bundle up and find a warm place- or sit in the cold!

PickleRick

You need 30 degree weather every free years to stop the spread of iguana in Florida 

Formulaben

LaRea said:

For ocean-crossing yachts, single engine is the key for efficiency and reliability.  If you're making long passages of 15-20 days nonstop, you want a smallish single engine loaded at 60%-70%.  

For emergencies, she probably has a second, smaller engine mounted off to one side with a separate propeller.  That's the wing engine, a.k.a. get-home engine.  

Ahh, makes sense.  I appreciate the explanation.  I'm totally OK with that setup as long as it has a 2nd engine of some kind to get you back to safety.  Just as in the airplane world single engine is far more efficient, but when it quits, you become a glider, and that's not on my flight plan.   

LaRea

And even though my brain wants the main engine to be something fancy, it'll be something boring like a John Deere -- because every country in the world has tractor parts.  

When I first started considering long-distance cruising about six years ago, a book that really grabbed my imagination was "Voyaging Under Power" by Robert Beebe.  It goes deep into the design theories behind ocean-crossing vessels.  When he published the first edition in 1975, the only pleasure boats crossing oceans were sailing yachts.  He showed the world that motor yachts could do it too.  

https://www.amazon.com/Voyaging-Under-Power-Robert-Beebe/dp/0071767339

YYZRC

@J3ff you finished your outboard conversion on your 270?? You didn’t tell us you were going with quads!

LaRea

How thoughtful of you to add a drum riser above the bimini so the entire audience can see the drummer.  

captkevin

Interesting

LaRea

Hopefully you beefed up the helm seat so you won't lose control when you spin up those massive engines ... 6 horsepower can be a handful.  

YYZRC

Do you think the scaffolding is rented?

Formulaben

Wowzers, I'm actually adding a hard solar bimini this year and spent a fair amount of time designing it so that it might look somewhat close to OEM; at a minimum like it wasn't done for a high school project.  I'm feeling a lot better already!

YYZRC

@LaRea I think they might be EPropulsion Navy 6.0s with an equivalent 9.9hp each. So definitely gonna need that helm seat stabilizer. 

aero3113

YYZRC

@aero3113 at what age did you pierce her ears?

aero3113

@YYZRC We had them done this past summer, Everly is 7 and Ella is 5. 

YYZRC

We have a one month old future skipper - thanks for the insight!

J3ff

YYZRC said:

@J3ff you finished your outboard conversion on your 270?? You didn’t tell us you were going with quads!

hey that looks great LOL

PickleRick

If function is more important than fashion...no complaints.   I'd want a tower to go up to to spot for fish. 

How many batteries are sitting where the engine used to go?   

4 mercury 110e engines across the back.  Approximately 6200 bucks each.  Plus the controller/charging system.   Plus batteries.  

I'd be interested in range and if there's a possibility of adding a diesel genset for extending range and running ac on the hook/underway.  

aero3113

YYZRC said:

We have a one month old future skipper - thanks for the insight!

Congratulations!🍾 ⚓️

LaRea

Great range but lousy speed.  That boat is trolling speed only.  At max throttle it's only 12 HP (or might be 24 HP, can't tell which model drives they are).  A 10-kilowatt genny would run the whole thing!