Sailor's motorboats

Bajansailor

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Here is an interesting article by a dyed in the wool sailor about motor boats for (retired?) sailors - don't worry, it is not bashing, far from it! There is a (surprising?) conclusion......
https://www.morganscloud.com/2013/07/19/a-sailors-motorboat/

And here is a follow up - here we find other folk cottoning on to the Dashew's Wind Horse concept :
https://www.morganscloud.com/2015/01/10/a-real-sailors-motorboat-launched/
The Artnautica 58 could perhaps give the smallest Dashew FPB a good run for her money (?)

But not everybody has Wind Horse sized wallets, so John follows up with this article about smaller trawler type boats for retired sailing geezers :
https://www.morganscloud.com/2016/05/18/offshore-motorboats-and-an-ideal-geezer-boat/

A neat concept, although the styling could perhaps be improved - it would be interesting to see what SunPrinFair would come up with if they started with something like this for a basic SOR.
Here is the Builder's webpage :
http://www.seapiper.com/
 
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