Looking for Coastal Cruiser

Just curious, our last boat would cavitate and not get on plane in shallow water. Always felt it was related to the under water exhaust and high pressures below the hull in shallow water.
Back on topic, the 54/58/ 62 Offshore are classic PH cruisers. Only a few listings available. Pricey, but will always be popular. With those large aft decks, I would take advantage of the 8 to 9 kt cruise speed and put out a few trolling rods when in the right water.

10 feet UNDER the keel?? Or 10’ depth?

it’s normal for boats to loose a knot when running at hull speed in shallow water. The depth at which speed is affected is directly tied to LWL and I wonder if there is a ballpark formula. My 53 hatt with 4’ draft looses a knot when running 9kts in water under 7 to 8’ but pops up on plane easily in these depth

Other boats I ve run in the 70/90 range loose speed when water depth get below 5’ to 6’ under the keel. I haven’t had a chance to do much testing but with 110’ seems to need 7 to 8’ under the keel to achieve full hull speed at the same RPM

I rarely get on plane with less than 3’ under the keel but none of the boats I ve ran had issues getting up on plane with at least 3’ under the keel. Last week we did a sea trial with the 5 1/‘ draft 110 and she popped up easily in 9’ depths

that said as a full time captain I don’t run as many boats as you do, far from It

in shallower water you usually have to be very gentle adding power to avoid cavitation

We tried that, but did not work. It would normally take at least 13 to 14'of water to get on plane, draft was 5'. The boat did not run bow up when coming up on plane, it ran fairly flat with a built in wedge at the transom.

What boat was that? That would mean never being able to plane on Biscayne bay where depth average 10’ at low tide.

That s insane. How can hull shape cause this.

Maybe a naval architect can explain that strange occurrence. Did the props start cavitating?

I found my Parents a 62' Pama in 2021 on the West Coast. They love it! He has 2 Detroit Diesels. It's a 2005 and was refit in 2016 by Nordlund Yachts in 2016. They live on it, and just love it