On Sep 20, 3:26?pm, wrote:


If I do I wouldn't have been so confused. My boating experience spans
only few month, I am sad to say. but I am determined to make it a
lifelong hobby. A one that will probably cost me a lot of money
needless to say.

When you (boaters who replied) say "on the slow side" how slow are we
talking about ? Would it take me 2 weeks to complete the trip? A
month? Or I will be celebrating my 60th anniversary with my wife on
the boat?

If your boating experience spans only a few months, I recommend
planning about 5 years and 2-3 weeks for the voyage. The first five
years will be spent becoming qualified to undertake the adventure.

You will want a *displacement* hull, not semi-displacement, for a
transoceanic voyage. People are lucky enough to do it in a semi-
displacement hull but such boats make better coastal cruisers than
blue water passage makers.

True displacement hulls are normally single engine affairs. Even so,
you will need substantial fuel capacity. You will want heavy
displacement, low COG, substantial freeboard, and decks that will
drain quickly through large scuppers.

(If I were planning a lot of long range offshore adventures, I might
lean toward a motor sailer with a simple rig.)

On Sep 20, 8:54 pm, Larry wrote:
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For instance
fuel capacity, or the hull, or what kind of engines a boat like that
must have and how many of them.

A guy I sail with was honored to ride a big motoryacht from the Western
end of the Panama Canal to the Monaco Boat Show, where the yacht was one
of the largest boats on display at 160'. It belongs to his boss.

An example of fuel usage on a fast yacht:
Panama Canal to Ft Lauderdale - 7200 US gallons
Ft Lauderdale to Bermuda - a little over 6000 gallons
Bermuda to Azores was different because they weren't going to make it at
planing speed with only 10,000 gallons of diesel aboard. So, about 60%
on the leg they had to slow the boat to a crawl to make it...Mark it
10,000 gallons....give or take a few.
Azores to Gibraltar, another 6500 gallons.
Gibraltar to Monaco he didn't know because he left the boat before the
FUEL BARGE came along side.

VISA, Mastercard, Discover, Barclays, Carte Blanche, etc., etc., accepted
by fuel barge operators worldwide.....(c;

It costs like hell to run a big yacht at 30 knots.....

Larry
--
Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......

I believe you. I just saw a yacht that if you were to fill it up at
the gas station it would cost you quarter million dollars to top it
up. SICK !!

On Sep 20, 8:56 pm, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Sep 20, 3:26?pm, wrote:



If I do I wouldn't have been so confused. My boating experience spans
only few month, I am sad to say. but I am determined to make it a
lifelong hobby. A one that will probably cost me a lot of money
needless to say.

When you (boaters who replied) say "on the slow side" how slow are we
talking about ? Would it take me 2 weeks to complete the trip? A
month? Or I will be celebrating my 60th anniversary with my wife on
the boat?

If your boating experience spans only a few months, I recommend
planning about 5 years and 2-3 weeks for the voyage. The first five
years will be spent becoming qualified to undertake the adventure.

You will want a *displacement* hull, not semi-displacement, for a
transoceanic voyage. People are lucky enough to do it in a semi-
displacement hull but such boats make better coastal cruisers than
blue water passage makers.

True displacement hulls are normally single engine affairs. Even so,
you will need substantial fuel capacity. You will want heavy
displacement, low COG, substantial freeboard, and decks that will
drain quickly through large scuppers.

(If I were planning a lot of long range offshore adventures, I might
lean toward a motor sailer with a simple rig.)

Thanks for the advice, I will read more about that.

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Hello boaters
Just wondering, what should I look for in a power boat that can cross
the Atlantic? In regards to length, engines, speed, make, and so on.

Thanks,


For power, one with an extremely large fuel tank.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:51:32 -0000, wrote:

It's more like, what makes the boat worthy of crossing the ocean?

http://tinyurl.com/y4y6ss

Looks like something from Waterworld!

On Thursday 20 September 2007 23:43, Vic Smith wrote:

Guessing, but a decent slow boat would cost @100k, a fast one @300k.
Fuel not included.

I doubt very much that you could get a MV with a transatlantic range plus
the equipment (incl safety), the engines, the structural strength,
stability and electronics anywhere near these price ranges.

If would be important to know the budget of the OP. If he has real budget
limitations he would be much better off with a SY if his goal is to do just
a transatlantic.

Al

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Thanks,


http://www.kadeykrogen.com/articles/...cbyTrawler.htm

Eisboch

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Just wondering, what should I look for in a power boat that can cross
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Thanks,


http://www.kadeykrogen.com/articles/...cbyTrawler.htm

Eisboch




Beautiful boats, but s-l-o-w. Sixteen days to Europe with all the
breaks. That's a long time to be at sea, all alone in a small boat. It's
not like running up or down the ICW.

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
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Hello boaters
Just wondering, what should I look for in a power boat that can cross
the Atlantic? In regards to length, engines, speed, make, and so on.

Thanks,


http://www.kadeykrogen.com/articles/...cbyTrawler.htm

Eisboch


Beautiful boats, but s-l-o-w. Sixteen days to Europe with all the breaks.
That's a long time to be at sea, all alone in a small boat. It's not like
running up or down the ICW.

My first transatlantic voyage was on a destroyer escort (315') making 7
knots while towing a passive sonar array to track Soviet subs. Not much to
see, but the Navy has ways to keep you busy.

I'd never try a transatlantic trip it in a small boat, but a trawler's slow
speed is offset by it's range. I roughly calculated that with two qualified
captains, running non-stop, our GB could make it from Cape Cod to St.
Augustine, FL in about a week, and still have about 25 percent of it's fuel
capacity remaining.


Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
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Hello boaters
Just wondering, what should I look for in a power boat that can cross
the Atlantic? In regards to length, engines, speed, make, and so on.

Thanks,

http://www.kadeykrogen.com/articles/...cbyTrawler.htm

Eisboch

Beautiful boats, but s-l-o-w. Sixteen days to Europe with all the breaks.
That's a long time to be at sea, all alone in a small boat. It's not like
running up or down the ICW.

My first transatlantic voyage was on a destroyer escort (315') making 7
knots while towing a passive sonar array to track Soviet subs. Not much to
see, but the Navy has ways to keep you busy.

I'd never try a transatlantic trip it in a small boat, but a trawler's slow
speed is offset by it's range. I roughly calculated that with two qualified
captains, running non-stop, our GB could make it from Cape Cod to St.
Augustine, FL in about a week, and still have about 25 percent of it's fuel
capacity remaining.


Eisboch



Surely not the USS Coates?

Being on a 300' naval vessel crossing the Atlantic is a tad different
than being on a 50' plastic trawler crossing the Atlantic.

I've run on the ICW at night in Georgia and in Florida. Without a lot of
local knowledge, it can be very, very dangerous. The visual aids are
virtually non-existent, the waterway snakes this way and that, in places
there is virtually no transition from channel depths to shoal, there are
small boaters scattered about and sometimes their boats don't show up on
radar.

St. Augustine is one of my favorite spots. If you are heading south,
just as you pass the seaplane basin and make the turn, you can wave at
my house on your port side.