David Ess
Scraping Paint
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Yes...its not just a matter of ..."feeling" sage, but ...KNOWING your boat is of the safest out there..
I guess it's partially dependent on your choice of cruising grounds: the Dashews love the South Pacific, with wonderful areas separated by big stretches of not always pacific ocean and with the nearest first-world bases (Australia, New Zealand) only reachable through treacherous stretches of ocean.
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Far better boat for me, was what I said.Simi 60....its not clear to me why those few attributes you mention of it make the Sher Khan a " far better boat" I'm not too familiar with it though. Is its alu hull also 1/2 inch thick? Windows 3/4 thick? The 4 steering methods of the Dershew FPBs, etc . I'll check it out.
Yes...its not just a matter of ..."feeling" sage, but ...KNOWING your boat is of the safest out there..
Simi 60....so ot sounds like what you really mean is that you simply LIKE the Sher Khan better.
I never said they wouldn't and to me it matters not if they do as they are not a vessel that interests me greatly at that pricepoint.And do we know if the FPBs would also meet those Norsk standards? I'll bet they would.
It’s unfortunate he has retired from design and overseeing new boat construction. I would be most interested in seeing how his thinking has evolved.
The FPBs are capable of crossing an ocean at higher speeds than many other boats and they're meant to do it safely and comfortably in worse weather than most. But at the same time, most people don't need the level of capability they have, even for crossing oceans. It's a limited group of people that want to travel in ways where that capability is more than a minor "nice to have".
At this point, I'm curious to see what's next for the Dashews (if anything). I noticed today that they had posted a note on their blog in November indicating they've sold Cochise, their FPB 78.
Simi 60...performance was mentioned, by twisted tree. But no problem...you just plain 'like' that catamaran.
...and I'm one of those who wants to be able to say that my boat is safer than most others.
Found 4 of them last May at Triton Marine/Jarrett Bay NC. Sorry for the long range pic. I was trying to get all 4 in the frame.
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Fast was mentioned by TT, performance was not.
Fast performance boat to me has images of some sort of racer, drug runners boat.
Dashews are not that, they are a boat that does faster than average passage times.
And no I don't just plain like that catamaran at all.
For me it is a far more practical and user friendly vessel than the fpb.
It is a decision or choice based on logic, not emotion.
For me 'fast and performance ' are synonymous. And when someone says...."for me"...that's subjective, not logic. My criterion was just safety. BTW, did you ever find out how thick the hull and windows are?
There are 2 kinds of fast getting confused here. There's "can achieve high speeds and handle well at those speeds", which does not describe the FPBs at all. Then there's "can maintain higher speeds than most in bad conditions", which is what the FPBs go for. In flat water, something like my boat will outrun an FPB by a long shot. But as conditions get worse, I'd be in survival mode before the FPB even has to think about slowing down.
So for me, I'll take the added daily comfort of a more traditional modern ocean crosser, instead of faster passages with an FPB.