Still would like to hear input from anybody out there who is familiar
with smaller power boats, skiffs and whalers as to any thoughts on how
this hull might work, and if I am on track with my above estimates??
Thanks...
These pictures probably won't be of much help but perhaps you can find
more info on this Sailfish hull design.
This is one we had a few years back. It was the Sailfish version of the
traditional Whaler hull design. I've had Whalers also ... the original
13' version and a larger, more current model. This Sailfish put the
Whalers to shame in terms of stability and ride. I am not a "little"
guy by any stretch of the imagination yet I could stand on one side of
the bow and haul up a lobster trap with very little movement or
tilting of the boat. It was powered with a 70 hp Evinrude.
My wife liked it so much she sorta took it over as "her" boat.
Pictures are of her using it off Scituate Harbor in MA.
Wow, 6500 pounds:) My boat will not handle anything like that although I wish it would.. How long it that one, 17 feet??
It was a Sailfish CC 17. Just under 17 feet. I don't think they make
them anymore. Too bad because it was an exceptionally stable and good
riding boat and I always felt completely comfortable even in three foot
chop. It was the only boat that Mrs.E felt 100 percent comfortable
taking out by herself. It was a little underpowered with the 70 hp
outboard but with two people aboard it would plane easily and scoot along.
This is the boat that I took a freak, breaking 8' wave coming out of a
notorious area know as the "North River" inlet just south of Scituate
Harbor.
I was coming out of the North River trying to beat feet back to Scituate
Harbor due to some thunderstorms that had come up quickly.
The channel coming out of the North River can be tricky. It's very
shallow on either side with a very narrow, deeper section. The problem
is that waves coming in from Cape Cod Bay build quickly as they hit the
shallow water on each side of the narrow channel. With the "T" Storms
out over the water, the waves were growing and they were breaking on
each side of the channel, then running together as breakers in the
middle of the channel.
By the time I saw the monster, breaking wave coming, it was too late to
turn around, so I just set the throttle for what I thought would be a
good setting, grabbed the stainless bars on the console and held on.
The last thing I heard was the prop coming out of the water and I fell
forward, cracking my forehead on the console which knocked me out for a
short period of time. When I came to, crumpled up between the console
and the seat, I realized the wave had passed, the boat was still
afloat and I had a huge lump growing on the middle of my forehead.
Then the fog set in. Took me over an hour to find the channel marker
going back to the harbor. No GPS then. Just a compass and a radio.
The fog was so thick I could only see about two feet in front of the
boat's bow rail. On the radio I heard numerous boats hitting the rocks
that line shore in this area. The Scituate Harbormaster was at the
Harbor channel inlet running a siren and flashing lights as a beacon for
boats trying to find the inlet but I couldn't hear or see them.
Finally, as it was starting to get dark I almost ran into a channel
marker and got my bearings. Quickly learned the limitations of a
compass only and went shopping for a GPS.
