Looking for thoughts, opinions & comments
 

Hi,

Considering a Myacht 43 foot houseboat. It is a pontoon based houseboat. It
is completely equiped with air, heat, (2) 50 HP 4-stroke engines, generater,
etc.

Would be based on Lake Marion in SC. Lake Marion is a very large lake which
is connected to Lake Moultrie, another large lake, and eventually to the
Cooper River which takes you to Charleston harbor.

Looking for comments on using this boat on the Inter-coastal along the
Carolina and Georgia coast line. This would be a far north as North
Carolina and maybe down into Northern Florida.

Thanks in advance,

John

Sounds useable to me.

Just remember that the entire vessel above the waterline will present a
LARGE sail area to winds and consequently in a decent breeze keeping a
course may be very difficult.

I would certainly want to see how the boat handles on a windy day before
buying. Propping for maximum thrust vs speed may be beneficial in this
application.

Butch
"John" wrote in message
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Hi,

Considering a Myacht 43 foot houseboat. It is a pontoon based houseboat.
It
is completely equiped with air, heat, (2) 50 HP 4-stroke engines,
generater,
etc.

Would be based on Lake Marion in SC. Lake Marion is a very large lake
which
is connected to Lake Moultrie, another large lake, and eventually to the
Cooper River which takes you to Charleston harbor.

Looking for comments on using this boat on the Inter-coastal along the
Carolina and Georgia coast line. This would be a far north as North
Carolina and maybe down into Northern Florida.

Thanks in advance,

John

"John" wrote in message
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Hi,

Considering a Myacht 43 foot houseboat. It is a pontoon based houseboat.
It
is completely equiped with air, heat, (2) 50 HP 4-stroke engines,
generater,
etc.

The Myachts are very similar in layout to the houseboat I bought, a
Destination. I have heard bad things about Myachts as far as how the
structure is put together. That's hear-say, of course, but you might want
to take a look at the underneath and see how things look.

My boat also has dual 50Hp motors. They could stand to be bigger. It takes
a fair amount of throttle to get any reaction, and docking is a bit harder
than it needs to be.

As for the generator, this is the worst thing about my boat. It used a RV
style generator instead of a marine generator. These require a lot of air
cooling so the generator box is not well enclosed or soundproofed. Not
being a marine engine the exhaust is not water cooled which makes it loud.
Worst of all the generator exhaust is right at the back, where the slide and
boarding ladder is which makes it very unwise to run the generator when
people are swimming. So you can swim to cool off or run the AC to cool off,
but not both.

All in all, I like my houseboat, so you might really enjoys yours too!

Rod

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:59:47 GMT, "Butch Davis"
wrote:

Just remember that the entire vessel above the waterline will present a
LARGE sail area to winds and consequently in a decent breeze keeping a
course may be very difficult.

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That is true, and docking in a cross wind is also a major issue. My
other concern would be freeboard, especially forward at the bow. I
have seen pontoon houseboats ship water over the bow into the cabin
space with very low wave heights.