Sharing my thoughts regarding a very low
maintenance long-term
liveaboard.
I'm 6months to beyond ever away and never in a hurry, it's just a shared thought via
computers print.
Here is a picture of what I adore; a vessel designed to sail with best performance when laden. As stores become eaten one could always increase ballast with a fresh
water maker to replace used stores. In times of calm and unreadable
weather one could always flood
bilge with fresh to keep her well ballast as a precaution or similar.
She's advertised as a
motor sailer yet to my best knowledge the iron could maintain her a below
hull wave frequency
hull speed or she could go without and be slow compared to many a modern light weight yacht during light conditions : Are all cruisers upon time demand to be at anchorage? I doubt that.
Her bow volume indicates a kindly sail, her
keel length indicates a wide fore
keel seen as the
hull and her thinner long trace below. That broad tapered edge extending beyond her
rudder looks protective to hydraulic forces on her rudders fulcrum which is braced above and below. She should walk nicely downhill while the others run.
An advantage of her
displacement hull could include a barely noticed drag if one was to use the
propeller to torque a small
generator. Unlike many a modern downhill skiff design cruiser, she wouldn't care much about utilizing a small aft drag via her prop to maintain her
batteries.
Solar could be used above
deck to maintain
batteries to compliment her drag
generator.
Although it is hull it looks to react like a broad edge keel extending to waterline, on anchorage she'd ride nicely. This ride would be evident during
passage and reduce stress on components, reduced stress equals reduced wear, reduced wear means less
maintenance.
I'm referring the hull shape, not material.
Trips me out how so many cruisers are in a hurry to get to port to go back to land commitments or away from a blow.
She'd dance gorgeous man. She'd need some weight. One of the prettiest hulls I've seen. I thought you might like a look. Graceful elegance that'd reduce wear provided tare is there. The simplicity of tare being
food for thought.