On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:16:40 -0000, wrote:

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.

There are plenty of boats that will make the trip.
The biggest questions are how much you are willing to spend, and how
fast do you want to go.
Guessing, but a decent slow boat would cost @100k, a fast one @300k.
Fuel not included.

--Vic

On Sep 20, 5:43 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:16:40 -0000, wrote:
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.

There are plenty of boats that will make the trip.
The biggest questions are how much you are willing to spend, and how
fast do you want to go.
Guessing, but a decent slow boat would cost @100k, a fast one @300k.
Fuel not included.

--Vic

It's more like, what makes the boat worthy of crossing the ocean? What
kind of specs (minimum) that I should be looking for? For instance
fuel capacity, or the hull, or what kind of engines a boat like that
must have and how many of them.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:51:32 -0000, wrote:

On Sep 20, 5:43 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:16:40 -0000, wrote:
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.

There are plenty of boats that will make the trip.
The biggest questions are how much you are willing to spend, and how
fast do you want to go.
Guessing, but a decent slow boat would cost @100k, a fast one @300k.
Fuel not included.

--Vic

It's more like, what makes the boat worthy of crossing the ocean? What
kind of specs (minimum) that I should be looking for? For instance
fuel capacity, or the hull, or what kind of engines a boat like that
must have and how many of them.

Wayne has posted some links along the "slow" line.
Power ocean-crossers/cruisers are quite different than what we
normally see/own on this group.
Coastal trawlers are another type boat.

--Vic

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

On Sep 20, 6:26 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
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

That just crossed my threshold for "Minimum Specs" by a tiny bit.

"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!

wrote in news:1190325092.787248.270820
@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

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......

On Sep 20, 8:54 pm, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:1190325092.787248.270820
@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

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 !!

wrote in news:1190347639.469976.197090
@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

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 !!




These fuel guzzlers don't belong to "people". They belong to their
owner's corporations who use them to reduce their tax loads, recovering a
good bit of the fuel costs in taxes saved.

If Mr X got paid $100K, himself, to buy the fuel, he'd only have half of
that, just for demo, or $50K after taxes to buy fuel at retail, say
$3/gallon. 50/3 = under 17000 gallons. Now, if Mr X's corporation owns
his yacht, and they buy $100K at $3/gallon = 33,000 gallons with it as an
expense, given their 40% tax load, he gets 33000 gallons for $60K after
the deduction...a MARKED savings on fuel costs.

Mr X, therefore, never buys fuel. Hell, he never buys anything! It's
NOT HIS BOAT!...(c;

Larry
--
It's not my truck, either....(c;

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