The Famous Grouse
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2008
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Re: Fuel Efficient Cruisers
This is really going to come down to how much are you willing to spend in aquisition costs and are you willing to sacrafice running on plane to save money down the road on fuel?
One option I can think of would be to find a decent used boat that has a blown engine and then repower it with a diesel. Yanmar specifically has gotten into the marine repower scene in a big way, but any repower is never going to be cheap so you'd have to burn a LOT of fuel to ever realize a real ROI. How viable this solution is would depend on if you could find the right boat at and the get it at a very low price due to the blown engine.
There are a few (very few) mainly walk-around cuddy boats in the size range that have diesel engines from the factory. Bayliner / Trophy has offered their Trophy series with a diesel for 4-5 years now, I believe. But would the WAC style be what you want in a boat? And again, finding one at a price you're willing to pay would be an issue.
Would you consider a Ranger Tug? I think it meets most of your criteria, but they have a certain "industrial" style that may / may not appeal.
Grouse
This is really going to come down to how much are you willing to spend in aquisition costs and are you willing to sacrafice running on plane to save money down the road on fuel?
One option I can think of would be to find a decent used boat that has a blown engine and then repower it with a diesel. Yanmar specifically has gotten into the marine repower scene in a big way, but any repower is never going to be cheap so you'd have to burn a LOT of fuel to ever realize a real ROI. How viable this solution is would depend on if you could find the right boat at and the get it at a very low price due to the blown engine.
There are a few (very few) mainly walk-around cuddy boats in the size range that have diesel engines from the factory. Bayliner / Trophy has offered their Trophy series with a diesel for 4-5 years now, I believe. But would the WAC style be what you want in a boat? And again, finding one at a price you're willing to pay would be an issue.
Would you consider a Ranger Tug? I think it meets most of your criteria, but they have a certain "industrial" style that may / may not appeal.
Grouse