rgano
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2007
- Messages
- 5,179
- Location
- Panama City area
- Vessel Name
- FROLIC
- Vessel Make
- Mainship 30 Pilot II since 2015. GB-42 1986-2015. Former Unlimited Tonnage Master
Glad to hear all is going well. In that picture, I'd say that hull seems a little lift-deficient. Maybe some huge trim tabs would get it up enough to let it accelerate a little more and get the bow to climb a bit better. If it does better than 20 kts flat out, but is struggling along like that, it might need more engine to actually get up and go.
I was thinking that same thing. I know from the sea trial data the boat was run at 4400 getting 22 MPH. I ran it to 3500 for just a minute the first day to check things out. Got 18 MPH and it did seem to level out a bit. I only weighs about 22,000 pounds.
With essentially no rake of the bow I find that when I want to push the engines to catch up to the Marlowe we are hanging with our bow starts to dig in as we run over their big rolling wake. It reminds me of a destroyer at sea burying her bow as we ran down sea in big waves, but that ship was built to do that while this thing could end up in real trouble. The bow wave rolls right up to just under level with the flat deck (NO bulwarks there, just aluminum hand rails). Imagine what would happen in a 3-4 foot swell in the Gulf if I tried that! Owner has no intention of such shenanigan's, but this power could mess somebody up if improperly applied.