On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:54:03 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:15:06 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 10/15/17 10:08 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:57:25 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/15/2017 11:17 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/14/17 9:27 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:04:02 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:55:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/14/2017 3:51 PM, wrote:
I don't personally know this boat but it sure looks nice.* It's
possible that they will take a well maintained imaginary boat in trade
but only if it has Corintian Leather cushions.

https://youtu.be/WsvN2KH8TyA

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2003/Seahorse-Pilothouse-LRC-3132056/Glen-Burnie/MD/United-States#.WeJp-Dtrx6m


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Very nice.* Has a real "wheel house".* Engine spaces seems a little
busy
based on the pictures but they can be deceiving.* Asking price doesn't
seem bad, especially considering all the upgrades and work done on the
engines.* Only 1700 hours.* Hmmmmm....

Unless all those pictures were taken when brand new, he has kept it
in pristine shape. Wow.

I am guessing it was a tax write off for some corporate owner and they
had a full time guy doing nothing but shining it up and keeping things
working. That was what my buddy did for years.
The owner took clients out for a ride and a sales pitch.


I'd bet that barge draws 5' or close to it of water.


More like 3-4 feet. What does your twin Volvo powered trawler draw?

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According to the Yacht World listing it draws exactly 5 ft and has a
full keel to protect the props - fairly typical for serious trawlers.
It comes in handy when cruising the boondocks and the nearest prop
shop might be 500 miles away.


As one example of the issues 5' of draw raises, there are places on the
ICW where the maintained channel is very, very narrow and if you wander
out of it just a bit, you are going to run aground, even on a shallow
draft boat. There were a few times when I was running one way on the ICW
in NE Florida in an outboard boat and I encountered a pushed barge
coming the other way, and in places where the maintained channel was
barely wide enough for the barge and certainly not enough for two boats
traveling in opposite directions meeting each other, so I would pull out
of the channel and in a few cases started churning up mud. A yacht with
a 5' draft would have run aground, perhaps hard aground. No thanks.

When the boat is seaworthy enough, and the captain is qualified, the ICW isn't necessary. Just ask
Wayne.

Your little Parker and your imaginary trawler, on the other hand, should stick to the ICW.

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Having run the Florida ICW many times in both directions with 5 1/2
feet of draft, I can state with a great deal of certainty that Harree,
as usual, is full of ****. The only exception is in the Florida Keys
where there are good alternatives. Not to say that the ICW doesn't
have issues, but they are mostly in Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and New Jersey. In those area we prefer to run outside when
possible but have run every inch inside at one time or another with
the exception of New Jersey where we always run outside.

We have never been pushed out of the channel by tugs and barges but
there are a few places that require the utmost in concentration and
nerves of steel. Perhaps Harree's nerves are made of something else.