Targa 37 impressed

[Renegade_Master]

Had my first spin on a Targa 37 yesterday. Was impressed how quick she got on the plan compared with our Gobbi 42. The big following seas F4-5 she coped with well, then I warned the clients who had learnt on the Gobbi but in flat conditions, what it would be like when we turned round i.e. rough & wet.

Naturally it was very wet into a F5 but the hull coped very well and still stayed on the plan for a fair bit until the slamming got a bit worrying for them, so we slowed down to displacement, and it was still fine.

All this talk about planning boats rolling when off the plan into head seas compared with a semi-dis, frankly I think its how you helm it that matters, I had no probs with rolling as long as you use the throttles properly.

I have not had a lot of experience with stern drives, being a confirmed shaft nut, so from the panel members who have was I right to keep the legs down to 0 in the following seas??

And I dont want any smart arse comments a like "but you run a sea school", Phil is the instructor not me I'm just the financial geyser & management brains /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Absolutely right. Trim the legs right in when in a head sea to keep the bow from slamming and trim her out in a following sea to go surfing /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

The Targa 37 is a fab boat - and I assume you mean the Botnia Targa /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif There is something appealing about the rugged workboat style that seems to inspire confidence in a rough sea. Would I chose this boat over the Windy 37??...dunno really. Tough call.

 

[[2068]]

The book says to trim up in a following sea, but I hardly ever do unless it's only a slight following sea, and I can keep planing and don't want to risk stuffing the bow. In a bigger following sea, I end up dropping to minimum planing or semi-displacement speeds, keeping it at "0" anyway.

I tend not to fiddle with the outdrive trim a lot. Maybe trim right down to get planing if heavily loaded, maybe trim out a couple if attempting a full throttle run, maybe trim in a bit if into a head sea, mostly leaving at "0" (or whatever feels correct for the boat with it's load). Apart from trimming to "+40" when approaching Priory bay at anything other than high tide /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

dv.

 

[oldgit]

very impressed also with quiet smooth ride,just wish something could have been done to enable easy exit from cockpit to side decks when you need to go foreward.That aft cabin is bit of a squeeze. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ians]

Hi Suncoast
I have a Targa 37 and have found it very good in most sea conditions, before this we had a 1990 Targa 33, which was very light on the bows and did BOB about at the front quiet alot, they got it better with the 37 with better weight distribution with having the water tank at the front of the boat .
The trim angle is very important and does make alot of differance, on our last few sea trips we have cruised in company with much slower boats which have cruised at 18/20 knots, so we have to cruise with the legs kicked in at -2 and trim tabs slighlty down to keep the boat nice and flat.
So I would say you were correct to keep at zero, but experiment and see what its happiest with.

Regards


ian

 

[ians]

Suncoast

Was it a Fairline or the Botnia Targa ???

 

[Renegade_Master]

err sorry Fairline Targa 37

 

[Nick_H]

Planing boats will roll in a confused or beam sea. If you're heading straight into the wind/waves then in theory it shouldn't roll too much.

 

[Renegade_Master]

"Planing boats will roll in a confused or beam sea" as indeed will any boat

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Oh well Dave, us Botnia Targa fans will have to go away and dream afresh.

 

[oldgit]

Fake rolexs and zips go together

Yerr well,but at least you Botnia boys do not have to go around with a chest full of cheap gold or have to sport a "Magnum" mousetache and spend 23 hours a day under the sunlamp as the Targa "F" crowd do.
Ps.And you not have to suffer from getting you chest wig caught in the zips either. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ians]

Re: Fake rolexs and zips go together

Oldgit

Chest wigs and tashes keep us warm up north !! , but the gold tends to rust a bit

Ian

 

[whisper]

Oh Dear !! Not a proper one then /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Re: Fake rolexs and zips go together

Correct. Botnia Targa boys are the ones that nab the totty off the foredecks of the medallion men's passion wagons as we race past at 38 knots, in a blood curdling roar of diesel adrenaline.

At least I will do when I get one........

 

[whisper]

Re: Fake rolexs and zips go together

"in a blood curdling roar of diesel adrenaline" - and water crashing over the whole boat. Totty has to be of the mermaid type. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Great fun though /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[oldgit]

Re: Fake rolexs and zips go together

Botnia owners must have hours of fun approaching other makes of boat from astern just so as to pretend they are the old bill and about to board to give a telling off of some kind.Frightens the willies out of me when they suddenly appear normally round about Greenwich or the Dome and the guns and flack jackets do not help either.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

It really is one unique boat that the yachties cant label a "Gin Palace" - and in truth, yachties love 'em! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif