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Old 06-11-2017, 10:43   #106
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Re: Turning a Sailboat Into a Motor Cruiser

Yup, if you are tired of waiting on bridges to open, your boat, you do whatever makes you happy. The resale value may decrease a bunch but, your boat.

After you get rid of the mast, rigging and sails, what do you do about the fixed keel??
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$35,000 . . .

I was thinking something like $3,500 or even $7k for a broken down, forgotten sailboat without a mast.

You're too rich for this blood . . .
I would think a $3500 boat would be a REAL project boat and a $7000, a project boat.
For those prices plan on at least 10,000 to 15,000 dollars more.
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Yup, if you are tired of waiting on bridges to open, your boat, you do whatever makes you happy. The resale value may decrease a bunch but, your boat.

After you get rid of the mast, rigging and sails, what do you do about the fixed keel??
If you remove the rig, store it for your eventual re-selling.

I saw this done to a 38 foot all teak hull double ender. The owner even removed the winches. It was very easy on fuel and motored easily around 8 knots on the loop.
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Nothing that a bigger motor cant solve.
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If you remove the rig, store it for your eventual re-selling.

I saw this done to a 38 foot all teak hull double ender. The owner even removed the winches. It was very easy on fuel and motored easily around 8 knots on the loop.
I have no problem with that idea. Just remember to rotate the mast and boom on the saw horses.
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The article claims that a sailboat gets better fuel economy than a trawler. I call BS on that. Yes, it will burn less per hour, but it will also move a whole lot slower. Your miles per gallon are almost certainly going to be worse, not better.

And then you will have A LOT less living space in a 40' sailboat than you will in a 40' trawler. Space that you give up in exchange for what advantage? None. Not to mention the draft issues.

If you want to sail, get a boat that was made to sail. If you want to motor, get a boat that was made to motor. It's your money, your life, and you can do what you want. But personally, I find the idea of buying a boat that was designed for sailing, and then deluding yourself into thinking that it will make a better motor boat than a boat that was designed for motoring, to be pretty ridiculous.
I couldn't agree any more!!!
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Re: Turning a Sailboat Into a Motor Cruiser

I understand the rolling issue when a mast is removed from a sail boat. However, has anyone tried this idea with an old multihull?
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I understand the rolling issue when a mast is removed from a sail boat. However, has anyone tried this idea with an old multihull?
Rumour has it that a Prout Snowgoose 35 hull was turned into a motorboat that would plane at up to 25 knts.

Gemini has the Freestyle Power. The hull looks very similar indeed to their sailing versions. It can cruise at 15knts and hit up to 22knts.
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Re: Turning a Sailboat Into a Motor Cruiser

Anything past hull speed on a conventional sailboat hull (displacement hull) requires more power then necessary.

For me, a sailboat would have to be 45, or larger to even consider demasting. Power boats have a lot more interior room per foot then sail. And why drag around a deep keel when not necessary? Btw a soft/rounded chine boat rocks like hell when not moving forward.
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I understand the rolling issue when a mast is removed from a sail boat. However, has anyone tried this idea with an old multihull?
Lagoon and just about every other condomaran manufacturer sells almost exactly the same boat with and without a stick. They understand the market especially in the charter business that people don't want to be bothered with hanging rags to move.
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Re: Turning a Sailboat Into a Motor Cruiser

Or just turn a motor cruiser into a sailboat.
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