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To: wardaddy
"does this Friendship have a large kicker...sort of a motorsailer or is she pure sheet with a wee Yanmar or Perkins?"

Not a motorsailer. She's classified as an aluminum Sloop.

And, while Hinkleys are well less than that at the same length, I think you're right about Nautor Swans, they're priced closely to this, perhaps just a fraction less. But, I'd point out the Swans are composite, and this is aluminum, FWIW.

53 posted on 07/30/2010 8:07:49 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

I was looking at powerboats back in the ‘80s and checked with a buddy of mine with a couple of boats and lots of experience.

He suggested I take the power boating course, and said it was required for a captain’s license for over 50’, not that I was looking that big.

It was a simple community college night school course, the minimum, not a pilot’s class required for larger boats. I also found out that here in the Chesapeake the freighters are piloted by Bay pilots not their captain. If the boat goes thru the Delaware canal to Philadelphia they swap over the a Delaware Bay pilot.

I haven’t looked into the buying a boat since and forget ever going near 50’. Biggest I was looking at was 25’.


54 posted on 07/30/2010 9:44:46 AM PDT by Eagles2003
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