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Forum: Powered Boats 15-03-2017, 11:16
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

Well, I guess you need to figure it all out now with that boat. That size boat gets you into various new rules, like the requirement to carry a copy of the rules on the boat. If you don't know what...
Forum: Powered Boats 15-03-2017, 09:44
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

I agree a rowboat should not be considered "restricted", by the definition of restricted vessels. However, the first rule of Navigation Rules (Rule 2) specifically requires operators to consider the...
Forum: Powered Boats 15-03-2017, 04:44
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

But are you still a power boat if you are not "propelled by machinery"? A sailboat with an engine fitted is not a powerboat, unless that propelling machinery is being used. You could even say the...
Forum: Powered Boats 15-03-2017, 04:22
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

I'm not sure how oars are more "machinery" than the array of mechanisms used to propel a sailboat. Rule 2 requires both common sense and consideration of limitations of vessels involved. While an...
Forum: Powered Boats 14-03-2017, 11:43
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

You must have been an east-coaster? We rowed in smelly industrial runoff that no recreational boater would touch, although the ski team showed up occasionally. We kept our shells in a former...
Forum: Powered Boats 14-03-2017, 05:23
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

I don't envy you having to operate in a busy commercial and pleasure boat harbor. The bigger the boat, the more you have to think about what you need to do next, and you have to focus on what...
Forum: Powered Boats 13-03-2017, 11:24
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

Well, elite 8-man teams have averaged over 11-knots for a 2000-meter race, so they could be passing him, or trying to outrun his wake.

Someone once posted here that your wake is energy, and it...
Forum: Powered Boats 13-03-2017, 09:42
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

Hey, you scratched my anchor!
Forum: Powered Boats 13-03-2017, 07:20
Replies: 60
Views: 9,360
Posted By 30West
Re: New to larger displacement boats..

It is not a displacement hull, and not a good planing hull. Those are beautiful boats, but a lot of work. I grew up working on boats like that, a lot of work, for a lot of money. I'm going to...
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