Option 1 cruising speed...

[Willallison]

Thanks Tom
Ditto on the silence - it would be nice to see some more ideas regarding this - and the other threads

[8knots]

Hello fellow boat nuts! The real name is Will Brinkley Just so you know. I hope i did not come across as a know it all in the last post This I assure you was not the intent, Unfortunatly i think kind of abstract so i just run off a bit trying to get the idea out. A note on a little faster boat. A few years ago Wooden Boat published a big article on a Hooper Island draketail. When i dig it up i will post the lines. It was a modification to the long narrow real hooper islanders. I have the lines to a few original ones in Sucher's book. The modern rendition is 34'8" LOA 10'0" in beam
and a draft of 28" She is powered with a 250 hp cummins and is a dry stable ride at 27 Kts cruise at 22-23 What about the possibility of scaling this boat back a bit to meet option 1? This style of boat is kind of different in profile but with the picknik boat craze on we could find ourselves with a good marketable compromise. I have allways liked these boats many of the old ones are still tonging oysters on the bay. Will

[duluthboats]

Ok Tom so now we have Will up north, and Will down under. We might have to go back to 8 . Anyway I hope we are all keeping this in mind. The first poll.

"Coastal hopping for a week ? 11 votes 91.67%"

Will B, I love the lines of that boat, but I couldn't spend a week aboard.

Tom the ice shack is off. It's the law. But we are still cruising the lakes with a V6 on 4 wheels. Walleye season is open in 4 weeks I hope the ice is out.
Gary