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Well lets see, Bahamas bound in a stiff 20 knot wind gusting over 6-8ft swells. A two million dollar 58’ sport fish would make 19 knots, a speed considered great!
How about a 45ft Center Console with twin 480HP Yanmar deisels clipping around @ 73mph :eek:

Click here for specs, details and more Pics -----> Don Smith Boats

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Dad gum-it Chuck, I knew I did not make the barn big enough
to put one of those in it. :(
For a good reason too. To keep me from wanting one of those bad boy's. :rolleyes:
It is sweet, I saw them at the Miami Boat show and had all I
could do to walk straight after lookin' at one.

See ya, Ken

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That Smith boat reminds me of the old early-mid 80's Tempest 44 cockpit sport yachts. It came with a choice of triple 370hp mercruisers turning TRS drives (remember those?) or if you wanted, it was available with twin 375 or 475hp Caterpillar diesels or with twin 610hp Detroit 12V92's. It was also available in a center console version with a single 900 hp 16V92, all with stainless inboard surface piercing drives. Stainless drive pic here. I understand only one of the single engine center consoles was ever made.

I was the Dockmaster at Waterway marina in Palm Beach Gardens and we were a Tempest dealer, although we only ever sold one of the 44's, and it had twin 475 Cats. We also had one with triple Mercruiser 44's in stock for more than a year. VERY expensive.

It was a heavy boat. Top speed with the gas Mercruisers was about 62, and with the 475hp Cat diesels it topped at about 65. I don't know what top speed was with the other set-ups.

Here's a couple of links with some pics of a Tempest
Tempest 44 for sale
Another here in FL
I understand Tempest still makes custom yachts, and still seems to prefer surface piercing drives. The current 72' Tempest comes standard with Triple Detroit Diesel 16V92's and surface drives, just like the 88' Tempest in the early 90's
88' Tempest from 1992

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I went to the SeaVee open house on 1-20 where they showed the 39' for the first time. I took a bunch of pix and posted on ClassicMako. Here are the pix for the Seacraft guys from my CM thread.

http://www.classicmako.com/forum/top...earchTerms=Sea,Vee

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Ya I could really wreck credit not paying that fuel bill!!!!!

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Ha Wobbet

Great pictures very impressive boat but for me the 29 or 31 would be the rite size.

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I have to agree with you, as cool of a boat as it is, its a little ridiculous. Believe it or not SeaVee has plans for the near future to introduce a 42'CC. If you need 3 outboards its tim to look into diesels, I couldn't imagine maintaining and paying the fuel bill for quad Verado 275's. Also in regard to the motor controls, there are 2 throttles like if it was a twin setup.

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Well, truthfully I would much rather be doing 34 knots riding in one of these (while watching satellite tv on my 60 inch flat screen in my air conditioned cabin) than getting tossed around in that center console...

http://yachtworld.com/core/listing/b...g_id=5224&url=

and 34 knots is not even all that fast in 60 foot plus convertables these days... and 6-8 foot swells is like a duck pond to a 60 footer...

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The dark blue 39 I believe is being built for a family friend of my brothers. These boats are being built in inticipation of the larger outboards that are expected to come. The 42, I think is suppose to be a express or day boat I cant remember what they told me. Yellowfin also has a 42 fisharound coming out, and I believe that intrepid has a 42 out right now. Another slightly smaller boat for those of you in the market for these rigs is the 36 invincible http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=583023 . They screamed past everyone in SKA Kw in the 6ft seas last weekend.

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Trust me. 35-40 knots in 6 -8 foot seas will be very uncomfortable after a while in anything less than 100 ft long.

A seeming eon ago I worked on an 87' aluminum gunboat built by Lantana Boat Yard for the Argentine Navy, that was converted to a party boat. (The Falkland Island bit with the Brits came up before it was delivered)

Twin 16 cylinder MTU diesels each producing 3200 hp through KaMeWa jets, 3000 gal fuel bunkerage, with a top speed of 52 kts at max gross weight of 92 tons. We could run full throttle in 5-7, but it would rattle your teeth when it got out of the water. In 6-8 ft I swear we occasionally got the entire boat in the air at 45 kts. On the other hand, backing off to 25-30 knots gave you only a gentle toss every now and then.

Remember the rule 9-5 for wave height to sea height, and 5-9 for sea height to wave height. In other words, in 10 foot seas, the waves are 18 feet from trough to crest, and when the waves are 9 feet trough to crest, the seas are 5 feet. That's because sea height is measured from sea level to crest, not from the trough.