On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:08:02 -0400, Harry®
wrote:

A skilled seaman like Wayne might take advantage of long range cruising capabilities to actually go places.

It is really difficult to say whether or not the alleged new boat has
long range or not, but my guess would be not. Running on plane a
boat of that type will burn upwards of 20 gallons per hour. Running
off plane it will roll your eyeballs out of their sockets in anything
but a flat calm. Been there done that. True long range trawlers
almost always have some sort of stabilization system to prevent
rolling at low speed, and that would be unheard of on a 37 ft boat.
We met several people on our Caribbean cruise with unstabilized 50
footers and they were all having problems - fuel consumption was way
too high running on plane, and the rolling was intolerable when they
slowed down. A 37 footer would be a nice little boat for cruising
around the Chesapeake however as long as the weather was half way
decent.