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Hello boaters
Just wondering, what should I look for in a power boat that can cross
the Atlantic? In regards to length, engines, speed, make, and so on.

Thanks,

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Eisboch

Beautiful boats, but s-l-o-w. Sixteen days to Europe with all the breaks.
That's a long time to be at sea, all alone in a small boat. It's not like
running up or down the ICW.

My first transatlantic voyage was on a destroyer escort (315') making 7
knots while towing a passive sonar array to track Soviet subs. Not much to
see, but the Navy has ways to keep you busy.

I'd never try a transatlantic trip it in a small boat, but a trawler's slow
speed is offset by it's range. I roughly calculated that with two qualified
captains, running non-stop, our GB could make it from Cape Cod to St.
Augustine, FL in about a week, and still have about 25 percent of it's fuel
capacity remaining.


Eisboch



Surely not the USS Coates?

Being on a 300' naval vessel crossing the Atlantic is a tad different
than being on a 50' plastic trawler crossing the Atlantic.

I've run on the ICW at night in Georgia and in Florida. Without a lot of
local knowledge, it can be very, very dangerous. The visual aids are
virtually non-existent, the waterway snakes this way and that, in places
there is virtually no transition from channel depths to shoal, there are
small boaters scattered about and sometimes their boats don't show up on
radar.

St. Augustine is one of my favorite spots. If you are heading south,
just as you pass the seaplane basin and make the turn, you can wave at
my house on your port side.