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Maybe it's deliberate and smart
In Response To: Wow. As a bonafide powerboater, I'd say those thrusters are pretty far aft. ()
Maybe it's a "thruster" not so much a bow thruster. If the owner has a shallow private dock, and the thruster is intended to just assist in getting off the dock when the wind is holding the boat to the dock, it would make sense to mount the thruster slightly ahead of the CE of the wind. It's there not so much to assist pivoting as for lateral movement.
Definitely "one man's boat"
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- This just came out of the sheds.
- I could probably design some sliding shutters for those thruster holes..
- The deep hull section is reminiscent of Ted Hood's designs
- Wow. As a bonafide powerboater, I'd say those thrusters are pretty far aft.
- Agree
- Maybe it's deliberate and smart
- Dockside handling should be "interesting"
- Cary Ali is in the water and headed to Florida, black hull, varnish and all.
- Cary Ali is nearly commissioned.
- Wow, Beautiful work!
- That main sheet "grommet hole" seems out of the zone to me.
- That's bad design, if that's what it is
- Maybe I'm missing something, that is yet to come.
- From your pictures, isn't that the mainsheet coming from the grommet on the stern coaming of the cockpit?
- From your pictures, isn't that the mainsheet coming from the grommet on the stern coaming of the cockpit?
- Maybe I'm missing something, that is yet to come.
- That's bad design, if that's what it is
- Damn, I need some eye bleach after seeing that awning support structure... (grin)
- That is a real fair weather boat
- Wow, Beautiful work!
- Cary Ali has her canvas on.
- I could probably design some sliding shutters for those thruster holes..
