side power fins or Gyro on 49ft sport cruiser

Gyro. It will be cheaper, you dont need to bolt a PTO and hydraulic pump on to one of your engines and/or gennie, you wont have to rip your boat apart to run hydraulic hoses to the actuators, you wont have to drill big holes in your boat, you wont kill swimmers with the flappy things, you wont wipe a flappy thing off when you park next to a concrete quay and you wont lose any speed. Apart from that, fins are great

Seakeeper 5 or 6 sounds about right. Should cost you £45-55k inc fitting w/o VAT

I'll tell you how well my new gyro works in a few days time
 
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I'll tell you how well my new gyro works in a few days time
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would be interested to hear about that,
especially a side by side comparison with a fin stab boat in a busy Anchorage such as Pamplone or Villefranche, ...

on Amalfi coast our fins have to work very hard,
as all these Italians love to pass through Anchorages at high speed with their big powerfull sport cruisers, Itama's, Pertsching, Fiart, Tornado, etc..
apparently this is allowed in Italy and nobody cares about it...

still satisfied with our fins, just interested if a gyro gives a different experience.
 
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Gyro. It will be cheaper, you dont need to bolt a PTO and hydraulic pump on to one of your engines and/or gennie, you wont have to rip your boat apart to run hydraulic hoses to the actuators, you wont have to drill big holes in your boat, you wont kill swimmers with the flappy things, you wont wipe a flappy thing off when you park next to a concrete quay and you wont lose any speed. Apart from that, fins are great

Seakeeper 5 or 6 sounds about right. Should cost you £45-55k inc fitting w/o VAT

I'll tell you how well my new gyro works in a few days time
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I believe Bart's fins are leccy powered, so easier to route, and more compact for the installation.
 
rafiki_ said:
I believe Bart's fins are leccy powered, so easier to route, and more compact for the installation.
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afaik CMC is not interested in systems as small as for 50ft boats

also in that size segment, the price of current systems is probably not in relation to the value of the boat.
perhaps a gyro when designed "in" a new model, make sense.
any more news available from the Quick Marine gyro's ?
 
rubberduck said:
What would be the pros & cons of each ?
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You might try to search the forum a bit, if you wish to spend a whole night reading about this subject rather than sleeping... :rolleyes:

That said, 'fiuaskme, on a 49' sportcruiser I'd rather have neither.
It's a type of boat which is meant to be light and fast - they are useless while cruising, and if you are at anchor in a place which is not quiet enough, you just turn on the engines and pronto, you fly towards a better spot PDQ. :cool:
 
MapisM said:
Ermm, no, it isn't...
...but in a sense, that's the reason why nobody around there with an Itama or similar care about it! :cool: :p
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its that bad and that busy over there, that E is put -off with the region
at ancher near Capri marina is unbeareable,
anchoring in the famous bay south of Capri is almost unbeareable,

we found some anchorages away from the hotspots that are ok,
Ischia and Procida are really nice
but still Italian boats come or leave the Anchorage at a speed,
we had to get used to this....
 
BartW said:
any more news available from the Quick Marine gyro's ?
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All I can say that after the first contact which sounded promising their sales guy didnt bother answering my emails and then after my reminder eventually passed me to their supposed new UK dealer who also didnt bother to come back to me. That didnt bode well for after sales support and was one of the many reasons why I went with Seakeeper. In a couple of years time after theyve got a few units in the market and a network of dealers with installation experience maybe then they would be worth considering
 
if it helps i have fitted a seakeeper 5 to a prestige 500 flybridge and it has transformed life at anchor. Would not be without one ever again. switch on 30 mins before leaving, unlock it before setting off and thats it. Switch off when back and it takes around 2 hours to spin down (i think). Only downside is it needs the generator running while at anchor. I dont hear the generator whilst at anchor outside, but would have to go without the gyro at night as i can hear the generator in the main cabin. Seakeeper 5 install is around £50k/£60k depending on what has to be moved. The generator had to be removed and fitted back on top of the gyro.
 
very satisfied with retrofit sleipner sps 55 in a 16m heavy (40 ton) motoryacht and sps 66 in new to us aqauastar 74 explorer. Life transformed.
 
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