We use 50's and they work fine. If it's blowing 40 knots and your kite is up it's a problem bringing it in. We lost 1 last year while hooked up because we couldn't get the kite in.We won't use kites in winds like that again. lol
If I was going to use a 130 I would just spend the $$$ on an electric set up.
Buck man - SFE and Tigress are making "high wind" kites now. They look like regular fishing kites, but have holes in them to dump wind. I haven't tried one, but it might worth looking in to. Captain Harry's website has them. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
Most of you guys have seen all this already but I figured I'd post again for the heck of it.
KAD 300 single diesel. cruise 24-26mph wot 31-33mph. 240 gal of fuel, advertised range 700 miles, realistic range: 550 or so/ 70 gal water, fridge/sink/stove/microwave/bev. cooler/ AC/HEAT/ 110/12/2500watt inverter / head/shower/v birth/rear berth/2 huge fish boxes/ live well/ tackle station/ lots of storage, outside and inside.
Odd looking boat but very practical for my needs and type of of fishing. <10 made with house, most had walk thru CC and tower.
It is no luxury yacht and does not scream across the water but it is pretty comfortable esp in the weather we tend to get here.
Great boat for a 2-4 guys fishing and/or overnight at some distant port. I re-did the inside a bit last winter and did a lot of work in the engine room area.This winter I am thinking of completing some unfinished projects starting a few more and adding a few more goodies.
I get a lot of comments about it, more than any boat I have owned
In my boat a volvo penta duoprop outdrive coupled to a diesel. This, coupled with the cored hull is how they achieve the mileage.
They are semi-custom boats, you can get them with any kind of power you want, many are OB's on a bracket in a CC model. http://www.volvopenta.com/volvopenta...terndrive.aspx
I think now they are even building a new 32 with volvo IPS drives. But expect to pay big $$ for it. Personally, after doing a lot of research I feel the best combo for boats of this size and type would be a single diesel with a Pod drive (ala ZF) and a bow thruster. ZF Marine?s New Single POD Propulsion
SeeVee built a test boat last year for ZF with one and it was pretty impressive. Great reliability, amazing fuel economy excellent maneuverability and really good top end compared to a straight inboard. ZF is trying to work out issues in its electronic positioning controller (similar to volvo ips drives) (ie virtural anchor, etc) . The big difference is that it uses a single drive and a bow thruster vs volvo's dual ips drives. Personally I feel they should not wait for this to be worked out as the efficiency of a single for me is more than enough reason to jump on this concept. I spoke to the seavee rep and he said they have built a lot of boats with this same powerplant and nothing even came close to the performace with the ZF drive.
My "dream" rig would be this powerplant/drive in a boat design similar to what I have now.
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