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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,

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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.

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Surely not the USS Coates?

A little bit newer than that, but not by much. USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028)
and then later on USS Lester, (DE-1022). Both were built in the mid 50's
and were basically low cost antisubmarine warfare platforms.

Eisboch

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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.


Based on the recommendations of seasoned ICW travelers, I bypassed Georgia
completely and ran offshore on the trip south on the Navigator. We
alternated "inside" and "outside" in Florida, visiting Fernandian Beach, St.
Augustine, Titusville, and then offshore to Jupiter.

Eisboch

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:19:02 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

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.

That's about right but you might get beaten up a bit if you go
offshore without stabilizers. We have made two runs north from the
Port St Lucie area to Long Island Sound in 10 days with only a few all
night runs. We could make that trip in about 5 days running
continuously.

Different horses for different courses. I'd be happy to challenge
Harry's Parker to a race to Bermuda. :-)

Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:19:02 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

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.

That's about right but you might get beaten up a bit if you go
offshore without stabilizers. We have made two runs north from the
Port St Lucie area to Long Island Sound in 10 days with only a few all
night runs. We could make that trip in about 5 days running
continuously.

Different horses for different courses. I'd be happy to challenge
Harry's Parker to a race to Bermuda. :-)

I can fly to Bermuda in about an hour and a half, if memory serves. I
can't think of a single reason why I'd want to get there in a slow,
floating RV like your boat that wallows its way there. Bermuda is about
650 miles off the North Carolina coast. What's that for you in the open
ocean, three to four days? In three to four days, I could have been on
the beach, gone fishing and snorkeling, eaten in any number of good
restaurants, and visited all the bars and clubs that James Bond never
really hit.

I find small boat travel tedious and boring. Sorry.