>>> Bill, it's a good cruising design...
that should have a very seakindly motion, but it'll be a 140/150 miles/day boat... I did a conceptual design for a 44' boat along these lines, but the Pilothouse was longer and contained the galley, opposite the dining table and the Displacement was around 10.5 tons... Average cruising speed would have exceeded 200 miles/day with minimum effort...
The boat also had a modified Aerorig, with all the lines leading inside the mast coming back to a large electrical winch inside the Pilothouse and shallow draft of approximately 3 feet, thanks to a pivoting keel, that moved the ballast weight aft to sail off the wind with minimum wetted surface and optimum trim...
In the end, as I had no time to develop the 2 concepts for mass production, I opted for the 46' Power Catamaran with 2,500 range at 16 knots, since it had by far the largest potential market...
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