Ultimate Cruising Boat

Great boat and looks to be a lot of fun but a cruising boat? never saw a bed. very little room in side and no big picture windows to look out. Fun,yes. cruiser, no.
 
They were great boats. I learned to hoist to 44's on the Oregon coast back in the early '90's. Spent a lot of time in a hover over them. They were built like a tank, but slow. Sure could take a beating, though.

Rick
 
What I like about this boat is that you wouldn't need to check the weather before heading out.

Seems like a pretty good deal, considering the new Detroit engine installed.

Must have been exciting and a little chilly for the helmsman when the boat spun over.

Rick - did that happen very often? Any stories?

Dave
 
So, has the weather been crappy on the Texas coast? Too much time to spend on the internet? :wink: Heck, Dixie could have 3 freezers in that boat! :mrgreen: Gonna be a beast to tow, though.

Warm holiday wishes,
Jim & Joan
 
I agree that it's a little spartan in the present form, but what a platform for a custom job. At $115,000 it's less than the price of a TomCat for a 44' boat.

Jim, The weather has been 50's & 60's. Some rain, but I get to fish almost every day. Dixie called home tonight and it's near zero with snow on the ground in Loa. Of course that's at 7200'. There is a reason we winter on the south Texas coast. Driving home wed. for a Christmas visit. Then back to Rockport by New Years.
 
Hey-!

Now where's those folks that wanted to know where they could get a tough enough boat to take up the Inside Passage ???

Joe. :lol: :thup
 
A steel boat? Big GMC engine?--you can get some mightly nice 40 plus foot trawlers (glass) with small and effecient engines for the same price.

I would go with the latter.
 
She can hold over 20 men below deck...
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I watch 15 people get into a vw bug. did not look like fun to me. Like I said great boat and a lot of fun but a cruiser she is not. a rescue boat she is.. starting to sound like flipping yoda. :shock:
 
The 44' MLB doesn't appeal. Slow and uncomfortable. When a 41' UTB comes up, that would be an awesome cruiser. A few mods to make it more fun, but very little reconfiguration. The 44 was designed more as a heavy weather workhorse with little thought to creature comfort.
 
DoryLvr":3ro13n8g said:
The 44' MLB doesn't appeal. Slow and uncomfortable. When a 41' UTB comes up, that would be an awesome cruiser. A few mods to make it more fun, but very little reconfiguration. The 44 was designed more as a heavy weather workhorse with little thought to creature comfort.
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I have a recollection of an article that said that the CG was railroaded into buying a new generation of heavy water boats that were anything but. Can you enlighten us about this?

Warren
 
Never heard that. The 47-ft MLB's have a good reputation at Cape Disappointment MLB School.

Is there another more recent vessel designed for that service?
 
AstoriaDave":3bznh3pq said:
Never heard that. The 47-ft MLB's have a good reputation at Cape Disappointment MLB School.

Is there another more recent vessel designed for that service?
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Here is a Seattle Times article that references the Deepwater program problems. More on 60 Minutes.

Reading this material I realize now these are not MLBs.

Warren
 
That's an almost unbelievable story of incompetence, greed, common sense, integrity, lack of oversight, and acceptance of responsibility......... until you realize is just another product of Congress, the military, and defense contractors feeding at the trough of the limitless U.S taxpayers money!
:amgry

Joe.
 
I suspect that the classes of CG vessels which Warren had heard about wre the much larger sea going ships. I don't remember all of the details, but I have heard nothing but good things about the 47 MLB. The 44's were certainly past their useful life at least as a rescue vessel--this hull looks as if it has a lot left in it, but I suspect the maintance would still be very high.
 
The issues were with the National Security Cutter and primarily were related to the systems approach taken (not a bad concept, just not practical considering humans will be humans) and some specific naval engineering difficulties, all since resolved. The other issues were with the hull extension of the 110 foot Island class cutters that were 20+ years old already and had a history of hull cracks from the beginning. The smaller response boats made by SAFE Boats in Seattle are loved by the crews and performing well according to the folks I have talked to. The 47, which is now near 10 years old, is also a beloved workhorse and very reliable.
 
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