Cabo Yachts

Mark stout · Oct 2, 2020

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I too have run ALL of the Cabo lineup. My favorite model and the best compromise would be the 45' express. It has all of the features and ammenities of the 52' express yet in a smaller package. The extra space in the 52' is a bit of waisted space IMO. The bridge is larger, the salon is larger, but not much else. It's not usable space. The 45' offers everything you need for serious fishing like a bait freezer, ice maker in one of the fish boxes, plenty of range and speed, and I've run one extensively and it raises billfish.

The trick with keeping the 45' dry is keeping the aft fuel tank full. If you transfer fuel from the foward tank back and keep the aft tank full. The boat is faster (she likes to run with some trim tabs) and dry and rides great. I've run a 45' with C18's around 3,000 NM's and only had to slow down from a 31knot cruise 1 time to 24 knots........

The 38 is a nice riding boat, but I much prefer the helm/bridge layout of the 40'+ expresses with the center helm and wrap around seating.
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We added 2” rails from the wind sold back on the chine and dried the boat out completely gained 4 knots and no adverse ride problems Merrit’s did the work

Mark stout · Oct 2, 2020

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I've never run one with c12's, however I've run C12's in other boats and they're torquey and run well. I've run a 45 with 660hp 3196 cats, 800 mans, 1050 mans, 1100 common rail mans, and c18 cats. I really like the cats.

with 660hp they cruise at 26 knots, with 800hp mans or series 60 they cruise at 28 knots. with c18 cats or 1100mans 31-32 knots at cruise. With c18's they burn 75 gph, 1100 mans 73gph, 800's around 62gph and c12's should be about the same. The boat should perform well and in a rough head sea they seem to do best at 24 knots. But I think it should be a good combo with the c12's and should cruise around 28 knots I would guess. Just transfer as much fuel from the fwd tank to the rear tank as your burning fuel off of the rear tank.

For fishing the slower idle speed (sog), might be a little better for trolling. Since the C18's spin so much pitch on the propellors I'd have to run 1 engine in gear trolling ballyhoo's and left one in neutral. With c12's you might be able to run both in gear at idle and have better steerage (not that it was bad with one in gear) while trolling
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We added 2” rails from the wind sold back on the chine and dried the boat out completely gained 4 knots and no adverse ride problems Merrit’s did the work
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Our 45 had Mtu 2000 series 8 cylinder

Mark stout · Oct 2, 2020

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I ran a new 45' Cabo to Belize and all over Belize for 6 months. Our normal trip was 73NM out to the owner's island on Glover's reef, fish for Marlin 2-3 days and run 73NM back......about every other week. I ran the C18's at 80% load at 30.5 knots every single trip except once where I had to slow down to 24 knots one day......The 45' was a great running boat. The 1100hp MAN's would cruise it at 32-33 knots......I'm not sure how much extra profit they made on the larger engines.

Now the 35', anything over 25-26 knots would get really tiring after a few hours.
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We can’t find the steering reservoir on the 35 flybridge looked everywhere

Josue Colon · Apr 6, 2021

Anybody have some numbers on the 43 with cats 3196?

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