Bring a [boat] Trailer

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion) 08/03/2020 at 13:48 • Filed to: None

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Lots of boats on BaT right now (duh, I guess).

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Literally, it doesn’t come with its own trailer, so yeah. Cool boat though.

Also this is SUPER rad:

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That’s all for now, stay tuned for potential forthcoming update. (No, I’m not buying any of these boats)

HammerheadFistpunch > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 13:58

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A wooden Cat-to-flat with a surface driven brass prop? Wonky.  I wonder how horrible that is to drive around the dock.

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 13:59

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NCs on BaT now? They must be approaching classic status!

functionoverfashion > HammerheadFistpunch 08/03/2020 at 14:05

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I feel like it would only be ~2 0% worse than some other similarly-sized inboards. Just lots of patience and planning in your docking maneuvers.

CalzoneGolem > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 14:10

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Are all boats rhd?

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > HammerheadFistpunch 08/03/2020 at 14:24

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That seems like really weird placement for the prop being right up against the hull just for flow. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 14:27

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That Century is certainly space-age looking!

Sovande > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 14:27

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This is one of the reasons I love my boat and lobster boats in general. Most boats back to the direction of the prop rotation, but in lobster boat with a large keel, once water starts flowing over the bottom, you can easily steer in reverse. It doesn’t hurt that the pivot point of my boat is pretty close to the middle of the boat. Or that I swing a pretty large prop. Trying to teach my dad to back the boat into the slip was not easy.

Of course you can always take the other approach when docking:  just pull the levers until something good happens.

HammerheadFistpunch > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 08/03/2020 at 14:30

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It’s actually a great place onc e the prop gets up to speed. Terrible for everything else.

Sovande > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 14:32

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Current bid is like $40k for that cat. I can’t imagine the number of hours that it would take to keep up with the varnish alone. I have 5 wooden “features”on my boat and given the option to keep them teak or make the out of plastic, I would pick plastic every time. I simply don’t have the patience for that kind of work.

I used to work and live in Newport, RI and in the summer, yacht owners would fly in varnishers from Bequi (a small island in the Grenadines) solel y for the purpose of varnishing high end yachts. Think about that for a minute. They would fly in, house and pay people from a small island nation to come up for the summer only to apply varnish to toys.

Sovande > CalzoneGolem 08/03/2020 at 14:33

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Not all.  Some have steering wheels on the port side, some to starboard.

Ermahgerd! > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 08/03/2020 at 15:20

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This is basically a surface drive and its design focus is outright top spee d. for speed . The idea is when the boat is on plane only the bottom half of the propellor is in the water which reduces drag . You compensate having only half the prop in the water by using a much larger one than normal. When you see big offshore Miami Vice style power boat throwing up a big rooster tail of water, this is what is doing it. T here is also potentially less parasitic losses since the drive shaft is just bo lted inline with the crank as opposed to all the gearing required to locate the prop below the water. The down side is you can’t change the angle of the prop like with a typical inboard/outboard so steering at low speeds is pretty po or.

Ermahgerd! > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 15:22

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Without being able to angle the prop like in inboard/outboards or Z drives, dock maneuvering is a pain since it is difficult change direction without motion. It’s the big downside of surface drives (especially for single engine boats).

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > HammerheadFistpunch 08/03/2020 at 15:50

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I bet it backs up to the right really well though!

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Ermahgerd! 08/03/2020 at 15:52

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The surface drives I’ve seen (Kaama, Arneson ) have the prop much further away from the transom though. That’s why this looks to odd to me.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 15:54

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So f riggin cool. That Century looked rough, but the style is off the charts.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Sovande 08/03/2020 at 16:29

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just pull the levers until something good happens.

And ignore anything bad that happens lol.

Ermahgerd! > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 08/03/2020 at 19:10

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I surface drives these days stick out more because they have some artic ulation to help steer but   I agree, it does look funny being so close the transom and also how they mounted the little rudders to the side instead of directly behind the prop. I guess they’ve learned a few things after 95 years.

arl > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 19:25

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I know nothing about boats. But that’s a cool boat. Like a 57 Chevy boat. 

functionoverfashion > Ermahgerd! 08/03/2020 at 21:29

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I’ve never driven a surface drive like that; plenty of inboards from 16' up to 27' though. I wonder how different this would be. Also it looks sweet. 

functionoverfashion > Sovande 08/03/2020 at 21:30

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Newport? Yup, story checks out. I’ve done my share of varnishing in my day and yeah, you want the labor cost as low as possible. 

functionoverfashion > CalzoneGolem 08/03/2020 at 21:32

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No, but most are, and yet, in the US anyway, right-of-way rules still have you going the same way you would in a car - passing head on you keep the oncoming traffic to your left, so to speak. I guess when you’re hundreds of feet away, the side you’re on doesn’t matter as much, but still, it’s quirky. 

functionoverfashion > Sovande 08/03/2020 at 21:38

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Patience is an underrated skill in docking, as I’m sure you know. I often say, “no one ever criticized anyone for docking too slowly” as I wait for my boat to approach a dock . The follow up statement is inevitably, “If the boat is doing what you want it to do [ relative to the dock] , don’t do anything.” 

Sovande > functionoverfashion 08/03/2020 at 21:45

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I like to come in real hot in reverse , jam it in forward, goose the throttle and toss a line over the cleat.

Or just back in as fast as I am comfortable hitting the dock and take it nice and easy. 

Ermahgerd! > functionoverfashion 08/04/2020 at 10:40

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Once the boat is under way i’m sure it steers fine but s ince the drive can’t articulate it will struggle to turn without some motion, so docking will be a bitch. I think this is probabl y made worse by the fact that the rudders are to the sides inside of behind the prop.