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Originally Posted by winnipiseogee
Dave - if you don't mind me asking isn't what you are saying true for the ocean but not as much for the lake? Not arguing - I'm truly curious.
My father in-law was a lobsterman. I was looking at an Eastern a few years ago and was talked out of it because while its an incredibly seaworthy boat on the ocean he argued it was less so on winni. On the ocean the seas/waves are all coming from a single direction. Aim your bow at the right angle and you cut through the waves.
The lake it seems has no predominant direction except in a storm. On the lake the waves/boat wake come from every direction. Therefore the roll of a deep v becomes more of a problem while the ever popular tritoons provide more overall stability.
My person decision of a deck boat had nothing to do with seaworthiness (if its bad the family isn't going out) and everything to do with a cost per person of capacity.
I'm not arguing the point - quite frankly I'm not informed enough to do so. I'm more hoping the educated boaters here will help settle a family argument  |
It's true in any body of water. If you let the wave push the bow up, the rapid deceleration and direction change of the collision is transmitted to the deck and people on board feel it, if the bow splits the wave, there is less deceleration and the bow rides up less and at a slower rate, so the people on board aren't as uncomfortable. At some point you need to make sure there's adequate buoyancy to keep the bow from stuffing too deeply into a wave and that's where bow flair comes into play. The deeper the bow goes, the more buoyant it is and the more it rides up the wave rather that splitting it. The variable here is the wave size. No boat is going to be completely smooth at any speed in any sea state.
I think an Eastern would work very well on Winni, but not as a boat for entertaining a crowd. That's an all weather work horse. There are tons of boats on the lake with similar hull designs (well for that mater, plenty of Easterns...) and they do just fine. I think a tri-toon would be ideal for all but the really rough days that would likely have water on coming over the deck in really steep chop. I don't think typical toons have enough bow flair to get the bow up and over the biggest steepest waves you can get on winni. I know I've stuffed the bow of my 24 degree, 25 footer a few times. It has a fine entry but rapidly broadening bow flair and big, reverse chines carried far forward, so it takes a lot to ship water on to the foredeck.