Peter Aitken wrote:
We are shopping for a fishing boat and have narrowed it down to a Grady
White 28 foot walkaround with twin 225 outboards or an Albemarle 28 foot
walkaround with twin 200 diesels with jackshafts and stern drives. The clean
transom of the inboard is sure appealing, and the Albemarle people claim
that having the engine weight in the middle of the boat gives a much better
ride. But really, how much better? Is it a big difference or one of those
things that is real but subtle?

Also what about noise? It seems that having 2 turbocharged diesels right
under you would be a lot noisier than having a couple of 4 strokes hanging
off the transom.

Any other comments about this choice will be welcome. Thanks.



I'd vote for outboards in a 28 ftr unless you propose to do lots of
coastal passage making where fuel consumption cost and range might be an
issue.

If you go outboard my suggestion is don't under any circumstance go for
a 2 stroke & worse anything 2 stroke DFI, this is a dead technology with
the French about the only ones left now still trying to spruik it.
Yamaha is just plugging the market till the 4 stokes thing is settled
which will then only leave the French offering & renamed or not, they
will fail as Ficht did for the same reasons.

The new bigger 4 stroke OBs are still not as fuel efficient as the
diesels (the difference is about 15-20% HP for HP but the OBs are
lighter so you'll need less HP speed for speed narrowing the difference)



K

& the Krause lie of the day is a newie but a goody:-) This idiot has
never been able to even begin to enter any coastal nav thread much less
the many celest ones over the years, yet he recently produced this lie,
well it's another classic Krause lie:-)

Have a read of this I mean it!!! He's a nut case a complete nutter:-)


I took my *first* course, in piloting, with my then best friend,
Steve, when
we were about 11-12 years old, by special dispensation of the US Power
Squadron in New Haven, Connecticut. The class was held in the
evenings in the
basement of one of the Sheffield scientific buildings, on Prospect
Street, if
I recall, on the campus of Yale University, across from Woolsey Hall. Our
parents dropped us off and picked us up; the classes were in the
evenings.

We were at that time the two youngest enrollees in such a course in the
history of the USPS. We completed the course successfully. It was
about 45
years ago, when piloting and navigation were done with hand instruments.

How did we get in at such an early age? Both of us had started yacht club
sailboat racing in dinghies at the age of 8, and by the time we were
11, were
working individually and as a team, competing successfully in southern
Connecticut junior racing circuits. It also didn't hurt that my
father was a
boat dealer and marina operator and also a by-then retired boat racer
of some
fame, and that Steve's dad was a well-known sailboater out of the
Branford,
Connecticut, area.

Steve now sails out of the Maritime Provinces.