Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could
actually learn something about boating on rec.boats
Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-)
Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping
around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past
Big Carlos Pass.
You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full
displacement hull boat.
With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that
is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics
but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance,
baffle with bull****.
It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A
full displacement hull typically cannot do that.