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cheer up Mate, the only thing you cannot change is the weather try sitting in your cockpit(if indeed if you have one) with a fishing rod and a beer at hand, close your eyes listen to the sea, smell the sea, try relax and think, "how lucky I am to be here" and not in some slum in India I am...

says 22500, seems on the low side to me

pretty heavy at 30000lbs 13,4 tons

excellent, what is her displacement

interesting, I am lkg at this, to steam from Perth AU to Brisbane is over 4000 miles, over the top as going around the south is asking for heavy weather https://yachthub.com/list/boats-for-sale/used/power-boats/thomascraft-40-flybridge-well-maintained-twin-shaft-265-000/311328 if I go 10 knots...

was looking for a 40 gypsy in Eu, upon finding one in Marseilles, I searched reviews this was for a 1990 vessel, it was offputting did they improve? and what builder does it right? Any help would be good, I have a lifetime exp. building in metal, but know zilch about grp...

well i designed this one in alu, i could give away the design to a competant builder, i had a stroke, so i can no longer weld, this one is 8m, i had a new cummins 4bt 150 for it, but sold it

been to Holland many times to view there are very few cockpit boats, very few class B and even less class A most are used in what they term Sweet Water and some i climbed through have only primer in places that should be fully protected. most have no inside helm, which is nutty most have old...

yes zincs are essential, but not lots, use one on rudder, one on shaft and one on the hull

spent good part my life building in alu, here is what works abrade the metal, get rid of the oxide and mill fiinish from a plastic stray applicator, wash with fast foaming acid cleaner, hose off while the suface is still damp, spray with a garnen plastic sprayer alodyne 1200l, from top down the...

i found this, which greatly encouraged me to redesign my bottom, maybe it is in wrong thread, it should be of great interest to designers and N.A.s http://www.ayocol.itu.edu.tr/AYOCOL2014/files/presentations/AYOCOL_2014_Samsul.pdf this should kake 25knts cruise with 4btm cummins

depends where and who built the vessel, the Dutch build wonderful steel craft and they hold there value unless the boat has been prepped and painted to a high standard, she'll start to rust that standard means, sandblast 75 dft of zinc or devoe 201, then 300 microns high build epoxy, then when...

super duper!! you'll either have fun or a divorce:thumb:

this motor is brand new, assembled in the USA and stored at a diesel shop since. I have the engine on the Cummins app, giving all the specs from the serial number 73099373 over 6mill B engines built, they have a great reputation I was a builder of yachts and motor yachts, bought this...