The point I am trying to make is provide some more details to the reference SR spills you mentioned. Make/model / year. Are you sure it was the...
Cabo used frp tanks as well. USCG specs aluminum fuels tanks for fire safety reasons on certified passenger vessels, minimum plate thickness is...
Are you limited to 48’ overall or a 48 plus bow pulpit and swimstep? In other words, what is the overall size limit on your slip?
The Hatteras will nickle and dime you to death, much more so than the other two. Comparative fuel costs will be through the roof. It will be a...
Not as “fishy” looking as I would of thought, broader market appeal for them.
Most likely. As you know, every show boat/first in production gets that treatment. Time will tell what the real labor hours are after they get a...
Everyone may have their own perception of quality - pre-purchase, at delivery and through the entire ownership experience. But what I gave you...
You mean they are doing things that production builders were doing in the 8o’s? Dropping stateroom modules as a pre-wired and pre-plumbed unit has...
Howard Apollonia did the design for a hull mold at Christensen when they went more organic. Westport, under the Rust Brothers, eventually got...
Those hulls were built in Westport. I thought Dominos was a smaller different hull mold? They also had a place in Hoquiam that did some lay ups...
Having worked on two different yacht projects with Westport supplied hulls I am well aware of their transition from commercial fishboats, to...
There really wasn’t a “before” Westport because the Rust brothers used athe Sarin Hull molds exclusively back in the day, kickin* off with the...
The common thread has been Taylor, who has since moved on.
Bill Garden or Jack Sarin or Taylor Olson, who do designed which hull?
Just to make it clear, Michigan State, a great agricultural school, does not offer a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. You...
Sea Ray used a ton of 800/900/1050/1100 hp MAN's under Brunswick ownership, they even had their own factory MAN tech/rep onsite. 52/55/58/60...
One of the founder's of Cabo Yachts has started the Mag Bay Boat company with his son in the same California town where Cabo was originally...
But didn't the Brunswick owned Sea Ray's use plenty of MAN's in their 50'+ product?
40 - 45’ is ok in my opinion, would not go over 45 for a first time boater. Sedan/convertibles are easier to handle as opposed to a tall...
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