"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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By the way, unless you're med mooring or at some rendezvous or other
gathering where you want your aft deck and transom up to the central
float or pier, there's a very good case to be made for going into the
slip bow first, especially with a single screw.



At the home port (Kingman) I *do* go in bow first because there's no reason
to do otherwise and, like you said, it's a heck of a lot easier. Backing
out is not a problem because it has a hydraulic stern thruster (but no bow
thruster).

The problem at the temporary slip in Scituate is that the finger-slips are
much shorter and, if bow in, they don't extend far enough to get aboard
without climbing under a rail. The GB has three rail "flip ups" (one port,
one starboard and one on the transom rail) but the side ones are too far
back towards the stern to be reached on the short finger pier at Scituate.

Besides ... learning to back this thing up accurately is a new skill to
master.
I used to think a single I/O was difficult. This is much more of a
challenge.

Eisboch

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:44:27 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

BTW .... Wayne ...

The former owner of Mrs.E's boat ended up buying a 1990 GB 49 footer with
twins.
It's not high powered ... 15 kt cruise ... but it's a thing of beauty. He
spent all last winter traveling the southern hemisphere in it and recently
returned to Kingman for a short haul and cleaning before traveling off
again.

Cool.

15 kts *is* high powered compared to ours. We can cruise at 10.5 kts
when we need to but it's much more fuel efficient in the 8.5 to 9
range.

What kind of engines does he have?

Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:44:27 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

BTW .... Wayne ...

The former owner of Mrs.E's boat ended up buying a 1990 GB 49 footer with
twins.
It's not high powered ... 15 kt cruise ... but it's a thing of beauty. He
spent all last winter traveling the southern hemisphere in it and recently
returned to Kingman for a short haul and cleaning before traveling off
again.

Cool.

15 kts *is* high powered compared to ours. We can cruise at 10.5 kts
when we need to but it's much more fuel efficient in the 8.5 to 9
range.



What's the breeze like at 8.5 knots? :}

On Jun 11, 12:12?pm, HK wrote:


What's the breeze like at 8.5 knots? :}

Natural man, natural.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:12:47 -0400, HK wrote:

What's the breeze like at 8.5 knots? :}

Pretty nice actually. The flybridge is almost always comfortable in
good weather, the only exception being downwind in light air on a
really hot day. We sometimes run a fan in those conditions or retreat
to the air conditioned comfort of the lower helm.

How's the breeze inside the pilot house of your Parker?

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:29:17 -0400, "JimH"
wrote:

Not bad.

BTW: Another great day on the water. ;-)


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Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:12:47 -0400, HK wrote:

What's the breeze like at 8.5 knots? :}

Pretty nice actually. The flybridge is almost always comfortable in
good weather, the only exception being downwind in light air on a
really hot day. We sometimes run a fan in those conditions or retreat
to the air conditioned comfort of the lower helm.

How's the breeze inside the pilot house of your Parker?


Great. Got two fans, plus an opening windshield and two opening side
windows, plus the cabin door, plus an opening hatch up forward and two
side ports. Lots of airflow, even when it is dead calm.