toppop52
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- Joined
- Oct 19, 2011
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- Location
- Eastern Shore of Maryland
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- Massey Ferguson 1723, Cub Cadet 1864
if it was, I'd be a fool to sell it.
no, an old lady, a 1981 46 flybridge motoryacht. 51 feet LOA, 25 tons, and pure deep v.
which without stabilizers is a seriously bad idea for a big top heavy boat, a real roller.
But in a head sea, you were commanding your own destroyer. Many times I came up the Bay in really bad weather
and a dozen boats had gotten in behind me as the deep v hull cleared a way. Seriously inefficient, 2 gallons to the mile.
When diesel was 73 cents a gallon, that didn't seem so bad.
In my Donzi at 45 mph cruise I used 20 gallons an hour or a little over 2 mpg, fairly economical for a 9500lb 1240 h.p., 94 m.p.h. Boat. It handled seas up to 6' or 7' without getting scary, not big rollers, I mean the irregular choppy stuff. It was about a 70 mph boat when I bought it, but a new hull bottom with vents and a pad and replacing the 454's with heavily modified aluminum head 540's, some SS4 drives and av gas from the airport, I gained 20 mph for only $40k!