BoatMan wrote:

Charm, Elegance & Speed in a new Breed of passagemaker Trawler. Yes
Speed - no reason lollygagging around when you can extend your crusing
area.


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Sorry, but no semi-displacement hull running 20 kt
can be considered a passage maker. Coastal cruiser, OK. What's the
range on that boat at 20kt? 250nm?

Yeah, sure, you can slow down to 7kt- and badly punish the engines as a
result.

If it's from Beneteau, it could easily be a good boat. If Beneteau has
been building powerboats in Europe for
all these years, they should know by now that a "fast trawler" is
typically unfit for LRC. Is the "passagemaker" adjective a factory
claim, a reviewer's loose use of the term, or a retailer's fantasy?
I guess one could say that crossing the harbor to the cocktail bar is a
"passage", and that if you arrive safely you "made" the passage....
:-)

Likely a very nice boat, but shouldn't be promoted for what it rather
obviously is not.