Dear Edward
As far as I know, for example, Krogen and Sparkman & Stephens have built and/or designed trawler-style vessels that can travel at single-figure knots as well as into the 20s. Only, like Ken said, the question is whether you would want to cross an ocean in one of these. Anything I have seen so far that remotely comes close to having proved their ability to go places like a Nordhavn has had a displacement hull and, therefore, travels at hull speed (which, depending on length, is actually higher than the 7 or 8 knots usually cited). I think one question that always needs to be asked is whether - and in which conditions - all these faster boats can maintain their supposedly superior speed. A Nordhavn just goes - no matter what. After all, two recently went around Cape Horn!
Peter Mueller
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2007-03-28 05:23:59
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