sailing is very exciting let alone supported by great equipment, safe sailing. warm greetings from the highlands.

Slow wind but beautiful sailing weather today!

very good post,@beveryting

is that your boat?
a trimaran?

Yep thats my boat.
An old trimaran from the 70s

I like it.
I envy you in a number of ways..

Thanks for your support.
My wife and I have given up a lot to cruise like we have been doing for the past several years.
Sometimes it's difficult, uncomfortable, and expensive...then there is 10% of the time that is great.

I created a sailing simulator...anyone can try it at there own risk - follow these instructions:

Stand under a cold shower and rip apart $100 Bills

my brother had a small motorboat...about twenty ft long I think. He said that a boat was a hole in the water that you dumped money into.

Don't care. I'm rebuilding a small houseboat (24 x 8). I have NO idea what I'm doing...but I'm gonna do it anyway.

It will be worth it as long as you spend alot of time using the boat.
Idle boats cost the most.
My boat is only affordable to me because I live on it.

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space rent is 75$ month

Love the boat.
That boat is very much worth fixing up.
I assume it is an I/O (inboard with an outdrive)
Rent sucks.

yup..
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the inside was totally rotted out...only thing good was the fiberglass shell.

I dunno what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyway.

That boat was made to go fast (25+ knots).
Probably had Volvo gas motors that are probably not cost effective to repair.
So...I would guess after restoring/rebuilding the interior, you have a choice of:
Single diesel/outdrive (Volvo or Yanmar or
Twin gas/outdrive (Mercruiser)
Single gas/outdrive (Mercruiser)
Outboard/s

They used a lot of plywood encapsulated in polyester resin for building the transom and stringers, if the wood is wet or rotting it has to be removed and rebuilt. Foam boards are the best for stringers, and multiple layers of marine grade plywood laminated together for the transom.

Alot depends on if you want to go fast.
The hull was designed to go fast so it would be a nice to bring it back up to speed.
But if speed isn't important a 9.9 hp outboard would push that boat a ~ 6knts.

so far I've ripped out it's tiny guts.
ain't nothing left on the inside at all.
overkill is not a word in my vocabulary.
Any wood below the waterline (on the inside) I'm replacing with pressure treated 2" wood.

I'll have a 2 x 6 flat on the bottom, carved to fit the hull...glued in with gorilla glue.
a 2x4 flat on top of it...
1 x 6's cross wise...(all spaces are filled with foam)
down the center will be a trough (below the deck)..about 2ft wide by 10 ft long...
water storage, batteries for the interior, miscellaneous storage..under the floor.
under the rear deck, where the volvos were originally installed will be MOAH batteries. (a bunchaton of them)

The whole roof (I'm gonna remove the flying bridge) will be convered with solar panels.

I THINK (I change my mind several times a week) that the completed boat will look something like this
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(a little bit bigger)
propulsion will be electric motors (still working that part out in my mind)

I think I'll add a sail.
http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/data/526/a_sailplan.gif
aft mounted bipod...foresail, roller reefed , foresail only.
(not very bit)

everything on the inside will be electric.
with a grill outside on the stern.

I'm not looking for speed...as you say.. just a few knots..

(who knows..I might add outriggers and turn it into a trimaran)

MOAH battery? Whould that be a super capacitor?

I have seen electric motors (eteck pancake) mounted to a 9.9 outboard.
Remove the gasoline power head then fabricate a connector and mount for the electric motor. There is some unnecessary gearing (no need for reduction or reverse) but it will work.

You know what your doing...you boat is going to be great.

I love custom machines.

MOAH = more
(it's slang)
I WISH I knew what I was doing..
At any rate...it gives me something to do.
(retired)

I just checked eteck...
NOW I'm thinking about a paddle wheel.
(again)

very good post,@beveryting

I have seen your boat in Florida a while back

Could be, where and when?

@psinned I know you...
You made it here. Great to see you!

It took awhile to be approved.
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Have a good sailing!

Sail that thing to Corpus Christi and I'll buy you and the misses dinner.

If we make it that way I will take you up on that offer.
Life is full of surprises, and I'm never sure where I'll be in the future.