Offshore Sportfishing Motorsailer, innovations & alternatives

Mr Efficiency, You have squarely nailed the answer, "It depends".
If there is any hard and fast rules on the subject they have eluded me for many years.
Sure some boats raise fish better than others, and I have both caught and not caught a large number of gamefish on a wide variety of boats.
This is the allure of fishing, and exactly why the sport is not called "catching".
My motto is "If you don't go, you'll not know" so wake me early, eh?

 

A recent inquiry I received just today,..

SAILING TO A WORLD OF BIG FISH ADVENTURES
Part 1: The creation of Offshore Hunter
Many of us dream of travelling the world, chasing the biggest marlin at the world’s best hotspots.

Norwegian businessman Morten Ruud made that dream a reality, designing and building a unique sailing gameboat to enable it. Having now completed stage one of his round-the-world odyssey, Morten shares the creation of his dream and the first wave of his remarkable big fish successes.

BlueWater Issue 131 | BlueWater Boats n Sports Fishing Magazine https://bluewatermag.com.au/subscriptions/past-issues/bluewater-issue-131/

 

I have written several messages to the editor of that BlueWater magazine, and he plans to do a second article on that vessel. AND he is interested in discussing some of my concepts after he finishes a trip to visit an old fishing friend in Tahiti. Looking forward to that.

 

Never heard back from this magazine editor who initially expressed an interest in more about this subject?...but then someone on another forum commented that was nothing new form this author

 

Just found this website, but I need to get it translated
Prosjektet https://offshorehunterdotcom.wordpress.com/home/

 

I never got a return message from this fellow,...nor a translation of the language,...BUT there are some photos

 

just to provide a link to a gentlemand looking for a 'fishing under sailing boat

 

I provided my gamefishing design years ago, a short time after Lock Crowther designed Tara Vana for the Bora Bora gentleman,..

Gamefishing Design - a 65' mast-aft sailing catamaran. https://runningtideyachts.com/gamefishing/

I never understood why more gamefishing guys ever made some serious inquires to building such a vessel. I've been giving some new thoughts on a new version of such a vessel, and in particular one of the 2 versions I am thinking about will utilize an A-frame sailing rig that will stand straight up rather than canted forward like my original one. I have documented in the past a good number of A-frame rigs that have turned out quite successful.
But mine will still have ALL 3 roller furling sails, ....excluding any traditional mainsail

If some new person wishes to move forward on such a project there is a good lesson that might be learned by this project documented on this subject thread where the gentleman took an older cruising cat design and modified to build his sportsfisher. Modifying an older vessel for testing purposes could be a WHOLE LOT cheaper than building anew,..plus the end product could likely be sold off for a good amount over what he paid for the older used boat utilized for testing/convincing purposes.

Offshore Hunter (posting # 21 above}
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