On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:39:27 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On a 500
mile offshore run the trawler will beat any speedboat I know.

How little you know. Berkeley Breathed the cartoonist,[ draws Opus]
wrote for Boating and had a forty foot speedboat. Twin 600 hp Seatek
racing engines with 50 percent more power than a Cat or Cummins the
same size and weight. Arneson drives the ones with the shafts exiting
through the transom well above the on plane waterline. Seven blade
props that run with half the prop in the water. No drag from a shaft
or hub. 65 top speed, 50 for 900 miles. Deep V, intended for open
ocean. Low aero drag. No windshield, let alone radar. V berth, a small
saloon with room for six around a table. Tiny galley, cramped head. A
Carribean cruiser for the hurricane season.

Casady