Anybody got a spare $329,000

[holzbt]

Diesel powered and only 22" draft. If only I wasn't $328,999 short. http://newimages.yachtworld.com/1/3/6/9/1/1369182_1.jpg

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

That's a great looking boat... comfortable, and probably cheap to run with a draft that shallow and diesel.

[Donn]

Where is it? Would they trade it for my house? I'd have to tow a barge, to garden on. :D

[Hughman]

Now that's shippy.

[rbgarr]

Dave Gerr design, Covey Island built:

http://www.coveyisland.com/

[landlocked sailor]

Summer Kyle :cool: Rick

[seafox]

lets see to fit me and my budget first have to reduce the beam to 8 foot to be trailorable and to say 4 or 2 inches draft to fit my budget and on that draft I'd better stick with paddlewheels . practically a sternwheel but side wheels if removable, would look nice
jeffery
edited to add a coma

[ 04-12-2005, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: seafox ]

[John Bell]

It would probably cost $600,000 to have one built. So $300K is a pretty good deal, considering.

I'd prefer more deck space myself, so I'm going to pass. ;) :D

[Bayboat]

If you really have to have a power boat, it might as well be something like this.

[Wild Wassa]

I've got one of those boats ... like the one sitting on the roof of that big boat. I didn't know you could get such nice blow up boat holders.

My wife Helen said, "Gee, you could have a nice trip on that boat." I said, "I do, it looks like the one on her roof."

Warren.

[ 04-15-2005, 05:07 AM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[rbgarr]

I saw the one other 'Summer Kyle' when she was at a dock in Jacksonville, FLA. The skipper sang her praises as a boat for making the trip down the ICW, but when he was out of earshot his wife said she would have liked more 'deck lounging' space. I got the impression she felt like the ICW trip was like a 'long, slow train ride'. Not for everybody, I guess.

[carioca1232001]

At the Club this morning, a friend told me that another club member has firmly embraced the idea of building a 60 ft steel trawler , based on a Bruce Roberts design.

When I questioned him if the thought of building it out of wood had crossed the prospective builder´s mind, given that we have a glut of good wood, he cut me short by saying:

" Much cheaper, aside from a very reduced time to completion - in steel ! And no head aches later on with maintenance".

Any takes ?

[paladin]

to paraphrase another.....
"steel boats sink"

[carioca1232001]

Granted.

But so would woodenboats built from hard, heavy, rot-free, everlasting wood like Ipê ("e-pay"), with a specific gravity just short of 1 ;)

(for example George´s boat in Brazil, which has evoked great interest and many sighs on WBF, is a strip-planked Ipê hull, with light-weight freijó decks)

If you were to take N. American material costs, wages and required production time into the equation, how would steel compare with wood in terms of pricing for a 60 ft trawler ?