Preliminary Sketch

[rlewis]

That's great if you like the classic look. But, if you want to work in fiberglass, here is an alternative.

PS, any resemblance to a bayliner 288 is purely coincidental!

The flybridge makes more space inside, but the radar wing might be a little bit "over the top"

[rlewis]

BTW, anyone looked at the Bruce Roberts Euro 1000? It meets the spec requirements for the option 1 nicely

http://www.bruceroberts.com/public/HTML/EURO9.htm

[Willallison]

Forgive me, but I can't quite see how Bruce Robert's boat - rather nice though she looks - fits into the O-1 profile. O-1 is to be a lightweight, trailerable, outboard powered planing vessel. The Euro 1000 is a heavy, displacement, beamy, diesel inboard boat......
Having said that - welcome to the O-1 thread - it's nice to see there's still a bit of interest in it...

[rlewis]

Well, yes, I guess the Euro 1000 is a bit fat to be trailerable, I did not notice that. And, it is heavy because he sells kits in steel. A similar design in fiberglass would be lighter. I've been trying to find a design for a nice trailerable cruiser. The O-1 is almost exactly what I want, except it is a little bit small. You can trailer slightly larger boats in USA, and those extra inches make a big difference.

So, I drew this design and I thought it looks cool. I like the sleek lines, purely aesthetic. It is really the hull that is important, you can play with the the interios plan and even the upper structure pretty easily.

For some reason all the pre-made design plans I've seen have nice "classic" lines. They would look at home cruising on a lake somewhere between 1962 and 1965. ;-P

Sorry, just kidding about that. Different tastes for different people I guess. Just wanted to see if anyone likes my sketch.

[Willallison]

I'd suggest you read some of the posts written by Portager, he has done a great deal of research in regards to towing boats thru the States. His project is entirely different to Option 1, but possibly more closely alligned to what you're after. O-1 is meant to be a trailer-boat as opposed to a trailerable boat - in other words, something that you can hook onto the back of the family 4WD and take off for a day, or weeks cruising. Anything much bigger than this and you start finding that the launch / recovery / transport aspects start to limit your ability to do this.
I think that you'll find that by far the biggest limiting factor is height - which I would suggest will rule out your flybridge....take a look at Mike's (Portager) threads about his project.....