Best craft for Inside Passage? Your view, please!
I seek to plumb the collective wisdom of this group.(1) What is the optimum power craft for a couple's four-week trip up
the Inner Passage, in your opinion? Specify length, beam, hull
material, propulsion, essential features. (2) What is the most *minimal* power craft in which you'd feel safe and
comfortable making such a trip? I'll be happy to tabulate the results and present them here. Thanks for your input! |
Dan
Sep 19
2006
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| You're right. Peterson did run a Bayliner. Brain fart. Sorry. :-) |
Chuck
Sep 19
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| Lined with 5 gal. jerry cans lashed to the cheap aluminum rails.
JR
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JR
Sep 19
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| It's the inside boat joke for the inside passage, of course. |
Harry
Sep 20
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| Which inner passage and is this a round trip? If it is the inside passage
to Alaska, a cruise liner and/or ferry would be nice.
G
"Dan" <danielarichman@gmail.com> wrote in message |
Gordon
Sep 19
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| I'm referring to the waterway that starts in Puget Sound and extends up
into Southeast Alaska. |
Dan
Sep 19
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| Oh. That trip. A 22' Bayliner. :>} |
Harry
Sep 19
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| Good luck. |
Chuck
Sep 19
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| I have no first hand experience with the trip or this boat, but fwiw, they
claim to be the ticket on their web page: http://www.allweatherboats.com/ Good Luck on your poll |
tak
Sep 20
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| One faster than 8 knts. And one big enough to avoid killing your shipmate.
And one big enough to handle the trip from the top of Vancouver Island to
the passage. I understand there are some tidal rips that make the slow
trawlers have to wait for slack tide to make the passage at different
locations. Probably a 27' minimum powerboat. |
Calif
Sep 20
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| There are several areas like you describe. Slower boaters take the
traditional step of timing departure, etc, to hit these rapids at or
around slack. As do all sailors. As do many thoughtful boaters who can run at enough speed to make
headway against a 5-10 knt current. These swift currents typically
occur in very narrow areas.
OK, so you can make headway and steer. But who's steering that giant
deadhead
(aimed straight for your stem and with an appetite for struts)
approaching at perhaps 7 knots? And, in a narrow pass with rocks on
either side how do you propose to avoid it? |
Chuck
Sep 19
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| This discussion reminds me of the story from back in the day. Seems that
a reporter or some such person asked Dan Gurney, who was a well known
race car driver for the Ferrari team among others, "what car would you
prefer for a drive across the united states?" expecting him to name some
exotic sports car. He looked at the reporter and said " Why, an air
conditioned Cadillac, of course". Seems to me that the same principle would apply to a boat trip like this. del cecchi |
Del
Sep 19
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| Well, I did it in a 21' boat back in the 80s. And I didn't listen to a tape
every day like Peterson. In "Day by Day to ALaska" he went in a Bayliner
that leaked a lot. Did it change into a C-Dory when it grew up? Also, I do
not understand why anyone would want to make the trip the way he did--never
did stop to enjoy anything, just blast past lots of beautiful places with
lots of days of hard running. However, it does point out you can go in most any boat if you do a bit of
planning. Regards Dan (danlw7) |
Danlw
Sep 19
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| Run over it if it is level with the water. But I drive an Aluminum jetboat.
:>) |
Calif
Sep 20
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