Looks like plenty of HP is needed to get you through this entrance - Vid clip

[oceanfroggie]

Height is important on these big game boats, higher you can get more of the horizon you can see/scan through the bins when looking for bird activity,bird activity equals bait fish and bait fish thrashing on the surface usually means the big game are chasing them up!

Ah, thanks for explaining that.

 

[david_bagshaw]

I came across the vids on youtube with the description of "gloucester harbour", assuming the good old USA. It's definitely not the Gloucester i'm used to on the Severn, if it were i'd need new underwear everytime i went through there

Here's another, doing it with style :

Interesting when we think of the usa and the legal eagles being ready to jump and skin you alive , yet in the UK just a little current shuts the river!

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Yes impressive, he's used to that. Why do Americans like Eiffel towers stuck on top of their boats? Are they trying to look like military vessels? Some US FB designs look like boxey tower blocks. I appreciate the boat in the video was a leisure fishing boat but I can't see the practice advantage of the height.

may be I am alone here, but I love those boats, that is a Hatteras 60 in the video, what can I say magnificent. But saying all this I would never want full tower, but a hard top with outriggers make it so so sexy and timeless.
We have an Ocean Yachts 73, and a Viking 54 modern sport fishers apart some other old Hatteras, Bertrams, Chris Craft running around locally what I can say I get blind when I see one of them.

Also the engineering details of the yachts along with their performance is always impressive indeed.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Also the engineering details of the yachts along with their performance is always impressive indeed.

The performance is staggering. The other day, I was reading a test of the new Hatteras 54GT flybridge boat and that maxes out at 42kts To think Euro manufacturers are satisfied if their flybridge boats stagger past 30kts. And the likes of the Hatteras are designed to go a couple of hundred miles offshore too so they have to be good seaboats too. I never really understood why these US battlewagons were not more popular in Europe; you don't have to have the tuna tower fitted!

 

[Divemaster1]

The performance is staggering. The other day, I was reading a test of the new Hatteras 54GT flybridge boat and that maxes out at 42kts.............. so they have to be good seaboats too. I never really understood why these US battlewagons were not more popular in Europe; you don't have to have the tuna tower fitted!

No second helm .... and with respect to speed.... base engines for the 54 appears to be 2x C18's at 1150 HP each !!!... and I bet the one tested had C32's at 1600 Hp each.... that is 3200 Hp in a 54 footer .... so no wonder they are shifting.... and the 54 is carrying 4,500L of fuel as well, so plenty of GoGo Juice for those big iron lumps .... By the way I do like them !!

 

[U4]

may be I am alone here, but I love those boats

Not at all, I think they are fantastic boats.

 

[AndieMac]

Yes impressive, he's used to that. Why do Americans like Eiffel towers stuck on top of their boats? Are they trying to look like military vessels? Some US FB designs look like boxey tower blocks. I appreciate the boat in the video was a leisure fishing boat but I can't see the practice advantage of the height.

Not much use for the Shannon....

RobWales summed it up of course, but you can't help thinking there may be a degree of bigger is better (more impressive) with some of these boating appendages, like some super yachts with multiple satellite communication domes, the size of small houses.

 

[AndieMac]

.... By the way I do like them !!

The Yanks have never been frightened to throw huge horsepower into anything, I must admit I do like the look of the clean lines (however impractical) of no bow rails.