Recent content by Whippersnapper

If this is the same problem as I once had (my boat has the same engine), the tech installed a self resetting fuse. Apparently it is a known issue. Haven’t had any repeats.

Chain double the length of your vessel. My boat is just 9.1m long and has 20m chain and 70m of warp.

Sorry I haven’t got time to read through the entire thread. My comment is that the energy density of diesel is about 100x more than Li-ion batteries. When you factor in the better efficiency of electric motors you end up with a difference of around 25x. So if your boat currently has a 1,000...

9m boat. 20m chain and 70m warp

Nick is mostly making content for day dreamers. You can see from the comments that most people have no idea of the practicalities of a boat also by far his most popular videos are of super yachts something I’m not interested in much. I use his videos to rule out models to be honest. I’ll be...

Yes the series are very interesting. He makes you want to own one! To be fair Nicks videos are just walks throughs not any sort of review or commentary

Could do with being a 45 footer just to give it some cockpit space otherwise an awesome little ship for a serious cruising couple. however unless you are super committed to long distances surely a semi displacement option is a far more practical choice?

I think it’s a status thing. When you are so wealthy that you choose something ugly on purpose because you can

Yes but that is a semi displacement hull. A planing hull won’t have a keel like that. The best you’ll get is if the props are in tunnels designed to reduce the shaft angle. I am no fan of IPS but you don’t hear of this issue (props facing forward unprotected) being a real concern in practice...

It does look very nice even if the those two chairs say hello grandpa and take up a hell of a lot of space. Having been forced to cruise for a few hours getting out to watch the Americas Cup racing all I can say is I’ve realised that full displacement isn’t for me. The semi displacement seems...

The energy density of batteries is so low that there is no practical solution for electric engines in boats other than little tenders, river day boats at displacement speeds and perhaps some small foiling day boats. Even hybrid things like the Greenline 40 will do about 4 knots on electric for...

I would say your biggest issue is petrol availability. On a small boat like the ones you mention overall fuel expense isnt going to be that high and the greater fuel consumption of a petrol will be offset by the lower initial cost (if new) and reduced servicing costs. so if you research and find...

Ah, that’s much better then.

Ab absolutely. I assume the target market for this sort of boat are 70 year olds who are going to break a hip

My read was 206 gph on the MFD or 195lph per engine for nearly 800 combined.