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Default Wayne.B's ideal cruising boat.

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:06:51 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

A 60-foot motorboat with twin, 2,000 gallon diesel tanks. Twin turbocharged
and intercooled diesels. Cruising speed 40knots. 16KW diesel genset. Air
conditioning. Washer/drier. Satellite TV, satellite phone, satellite
Internet. Ice maker. RO water make. Huge liquor cabinet crammed full. Cases
of beer. Radar, autopilot and full upper helm enclosure. This assumes a
couple or three large refrigerator/freezer units fully stocked with a side
of beef.


Sounds pretty good except for the 16 kw diesel genset, way too small
for a boat like that. :-) A pair of 30s would be more like it,
those freezers and A/C units take a lot of power, and you'd need a
backup system of course. And what if all the good looking young
ladies turned on their hair driers at the same time?