Hot Tip.........Big Boat......Coming Soon
This is kind of a teaser but it is all that can be said for now!
There is a new big privately owned boat coming to the lake. It is a little bigger, by a few feet, than the last big privately owned boat that was on the lake. It is on the way now and will be in the water within the next 4 weeks. It is impressive! That is all! Stay tuned! |
I’m intrigued. What is the boat it will exceed in length? My recollection is a 50’ Bluewater, can’t remember it’s name.
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I believe Manitou The Blue Water coastal cruiser is 51'. I had the opportunity to run that one time so that the usual Captain could enjoy an onboard party and have a cocktail or two. The other BIG boat left the lake a few years back that was a 53' Carver. So I am guessin the new BIG ONE will be greater than 53'.
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"Bigger" in displacement too or just length?
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So back in the day, as my kids like to say, does anyone remember the HOTAI or HOTI (spelling may be wrong) (pronounced hoe-tie)? She was a privately owned Chris Craft Connie and was largest privately owned cruiser on Lake during sixt's and early seventies. She was slipped at Fays Boat Yard. Beautiful cruiser don't know where she went but Tom Alley who worked at Fay's had family connection to this boat. She was awesome!
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ugh, but the huge wakes this outrageous boat is going to make! :laugh:
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What do I win?? So much for keeping secrets huh??..... Dan |
Nothing. You got the length wrong and you spelled Galeon wrong.
Sorry, there is no second prize! |
Who knows ..... maybe is this?
www.galeon.pl/en/model/640-fly-2/ Whatever ...... hey there buddy ......power it on down, past Fl-3, and power up some big wakes ...... good fun swimming with a foam noodle belt and stand up paddle boards .... plus, is nice to watch a big fancy-dancy yacht like that, as it cruises on bye ... someone else is paying ... Shallow water and rocks is shallow water and rocks ..... and the big boats like to keep their distance from shallow water and rocks. Galeon has been making boats since about 1980 in Poland, close to Gdansk ..... on the Baltic Sea. Could be a happening boat for running a weekly zumba class ....... zumba on the Galeon! This Galeon boat is close to the same length as the barge 'The Dive' and probably 100-times more sea worthy. |
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This 2000 thread from our old forum has some pictures of the 53' Carver:
https://www.winnipesaukeeforum.com/i...mes;read=14334 |
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Yes he can but I just don't see the attraction to have such a large boat on the lake but different strokes for different folks
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What is the correct overall length if not 64'?? |
Does it come complete with Capt. Jack Sparrow at the helm?
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I toured a smaller version of that at the boat show. Neat features, but not my cup of tea. I'm more partial to traditional lines. That said, I'd love one of these: https://setsail.com/category/fpb-78/ |
OK, let's guess cost. I say 1.5 Million.
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A small boat like an 11' aluminum jon boat, purchased for $350 with two oars included from craigslist gives you a feeling for being close to the water ..... that you just don't get with a big boat like that!
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Even on a sunny, warm day, 36-degree water is pretty danged cold for using a swim noodle, but rowing a small 11' jon boat is totally doable in 36-degree water ..... plus you get to row it and go fishing. Sitting on the middle seat and using oars makes a small row boat very stable in wakes and waves up to about 2 1/2' high.
About the only thing you get from boating on a 64' yacht ..... is to get fat and drunk! |
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It has made it as far as New Jersey as of today. Headed to Portsmouth on the water then being trucked to the lake. Massive undertaking! Bridges, wires, tree branches. Over height, over width, over length and a weight of about 55,000 pounds. Plenty to deal with. It's about 7,000 pounds more than the 53 Carver was but it cannot be broken down for height like the 53. When the 53 was shipped to Rhode Island the bridge left on a different truck than the boat itself. |
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So...this must be primarily a live aboard?
Wonder how many hours will be put on the engines each year. I am guessing that after running around a few times in the new toy that they end up logging around 15 hrs seasonally. Maybe 1 lap around the broads each nice weekend? |
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I’ll volunteer to spend a night, or many nights, on it! [emoji6] Sent from my iPad using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
Displacing Lake Water—Even More...
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We used to use our cruiser as a "guest house". People loved the idea of sleeping on the boat. We downsized. Now people want to sleep on the boat because it has a/c and the camp does not.
The only way to go to Wolfeboro for lunch on weekends is to have the captain drop people off and float in the bay until pick up time. No captain, so that hasn't worked well so far. PM me if you want to be the captain. We'll bring you take out. Great for Welch Island resident who wants to walk to work. EOE M/F non-smoke. |
Coming from the Galeon factory in Gdansk, Poland to New Jersey, did it travel on its' own as a boat crossing the ocean, or as cargo in a big freighter ship?
Is not all that unusual for a 33' sailboat with a keel to make the ocean crossing powered by sail. 8 1/2' is the standard max width for a truck trailer, on the U.S. roads, and 8' is the width for the semi-tractor pulling the trailer. Will there be a regularly scheduled zumba class on the bow area, every week? Maybe it could be named the 'ZUMBA' .... with just five letters, not a bad name for a big yacht .... can go buy some big letters at Hobby Lobby in Tilton for short money. |
No Carbon "Footprint"...
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Catamarans and trimarans are more resistant to totally sinking, but all have been written-off by their insurors. Most rescues were successful, but the boats are still circulating—one found after nine years of sailing with no one aboard! :eek: http://www.maritimeherald.com/wp-con...ed-300x200.jpg |
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Or, if you are really serious about your objection to larger boats on the lake, instead of being a keyboard warrior why not take some action? Start at the top! Get into your Prius with the "Bernie Bros" bumper sticker on it and head over to the Weirs. When the families are boarding the Mount Washington for a day of enjoyment on the lake you could be strutting your stuff on the dock with a sign protesting "over sized boats". Anything else is just negative noise! |
Here we go, bringing the political crap to a thread again! :rolleye1:
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Personally I don't care what size boat someone has but I do care about how fast they are going, esp when it's a busy weekend. You can't count on every boater being responsible, careful, and respectful. |
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That will be impressive to see that move over the road. I imagine they will have to take it 95 to 101 to 93. I cant imagine trying Route 11! |
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True but at the same time some jackass is going to buy a government surplus destroyer and want to put it in the lake.
There does come a point to where the size of a boat for even "the big lake" is a bit silly. You'd think common sense would prevail here but sometimes it just doesn't. Not that I'm a big fan of new laws and restrictions but I can see one day this kind of thing happening. |
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To stay on point with the thread, I just don't see the point of such a big boat on the lake - aside from the bragging rights one gets for having the biggest boat. To each their own... |
Absolutely right
Bragging rights. There is no safety issue here, and for those who want to rehash speed limits, there is a separate section of the Forum for that.
From a practical point, there are limited places to keep/dock a boat over 44' LOA. Even if you have your own dock that is capable, you won't find docking at most public docks, or in many marinas. Max at MVYC, for example is 44' although the directors can grant an exemption. Many marinas do not have lift capacity. DES and the towns won't let you build a big dock or boathouse anymore. The list goes on. It;'s too bad in a way. I'd rather see the Swallow in one boathouse than 6-8 boathouses/docks filling up the same area, or a valet operation in the same place. (I use valet, so I appreciate its value, but from a lake use/intensity perspective, one big boat is less intrusive.) |
Both the Doris E and Sophie C are about 70' long, have the biggest wakes, never catch any forum flak, so's maybe he should follow their lead and name it the Michael B?
And, everywhere it goes, announce their arrival by sounding out that old hit, 'Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, Hallelujah!' ..... or maybe just name it the 'Hallelujah' ..... a nice name for a 64' luxury liner .... there, it goes, the 'Hallelujah' ..... and be pumping out the volume. |
Hot Tip.........Big Boat......Coming Soon
Through experience and common sense. A person with a fast boat does not indiscriminately go fast in tight or crowded areas but instead looks for wide open spaces. My father owned a 27’ Eliminator that would do about 90. He would open it up routinely but was very safe about it. Most if not all owners of fast boats feel this way. An arbitrary speed limit was a solution looking for a problem that didn’t exist.
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Id like to see the stats on the last 15 years. How many people have died on the lake versus how many died due to "specifically" excessive speed on the lake. Wonder if this boat owner would let me surf behind that monster! |
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While I don't think it will happen anytime soon, if boats continue to get bigger and bigger I would not be surprised to start seeing a move to impose some type of tax based on length, beam, and/or displacement - or perhaps even limits on size. The logic would be that bigger boats take up a disproportionate share of public spaces; for example, a boat like the one in this thread would take up (my guess) four or more spaces at a public dock and the equivalent number of mooring spaces on a sandbar. I am not advocating for such a tax or ban, merely pointing out that regulation only comes about when conditions warrant them. Very few politicians take positions that buck the will of their constituents. And, those that do are not in office for too long. Bottom line to me - if someone wants to bring a boat I feel is way too big for the lake, so be it. Until and unless something changes, that is his/her right to do so. I'll both admire it and roll my eyes when it goes by - and wish I owned such a vessel so I could do the Great Loop! |
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Tossing Winter Harbor...
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My present view is of a small lake that has been "to my liking" since viewing it from the shoreline of Camp Wyanoke; unfortunately, it is attached to the larger lake beyond. An even earlier view includes rowing near where Melvin Village Marina stands today. https://i.servimg.com/u/f91/18/11/38/95/fullsc56.jpg See all the wakes? Me neither. :rolleye2: We were aghast when our neighbors moored a new 21' Thompson outboard next door. When they invited me (a teenager) to captain their boat to Wolfeboro via The Broads, I did so. Five minutes later, I received the trip's only instruction while in 25-feet of water: "Keep farther away from shore". I thought this was very "telling" of the owner and his new oversized boat. :rolleye1: (At the time, there were no houses facing Rattlesnake Island). "Visitors" today blast their way around Rattlesnake Island and from Meredith Bay to bulldoze their oversized boats into Winter Harbor. They'll soak docks, erode the shoreline, break mooring lines, and set small boaters' teeth on edge. Some come to Winter Harbor to rattle windows with their unnecessarily loud exhaust noise. (Note: fewer since S/L). Even the best-protected of shoreline properties now have boat lifts and breakwaters. One boatlift has stairs next to it, eliminating the boarding of a "bucking" boat. :eek2: Bought a raft? Better inspect your ground tackle after every weekend. :rolleye2: Seen all the floatplanes using the three designated landing areas in Winter Harbor? Me neither. :rolleye2: Even while in Winter Harbor' "protected waters", I have been thrown out of my boat three times! :eek: The first time, it was from an overpowered outboard boat—hard chines, in what I thought was a gentle turn—totally my fault. The second time, I was thrown out backwards after slowing for a huge wake from a 28-foot cruiser—towing a water skier. :rolleye1: Lastly, tossed from my 20-foot sailboat—trapped between the wakes of two cruisers entering Winter Harbor. :eek: As for raising an already high lake with 55,000 pounds of displacement, that was really tongue-in-cheek. :look: Since we know that wind can more greatly affect depth measurements between the distant "corners" of the lake—one boat or all the boats—aren't going to budge the meter much while measuring 600 billion gallons of water. It's when they get underway that the metric changes. The rate at which a lake "dies" (eutrophication) increases with damaged shorelines. For an indicator, look for algae. :rolleye1: |
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When you have a bigger boat you know you can't expect 4 (your number) of spaces to open up at the same time in any public dock. So you don't even attempt to do that. The movement of this boat will also create significant fuel taxes, business income taxes, overtime for police, cable workers, and telephone linemen. |
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That boat is very likely too tall to do the loop. Most loop boats are <15' high to enable them to go anywhere on the loop, but the maximum height to do the loop is 19'1". There's a very similar boat at Champlain Marina that can't cruise off the lake despite the fact that the lake is connected to the ocean at both ends. It's too tall to fit under the bridges. As big as Champlain is,n that kind of limitation would make me nuts, I cannot fathom having a boat like that a Winnipesaukee. |
I would be happy just to be the salesman that sold that boat, nice big commission on that one! :)
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The speed limit has done nothing to improve safety, came right from MP about the last ten years of having the speed limit. |
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In all seriousness the Great Loop is definitely something that's on my retirement list. |
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I remember that 53' bottle. The corrosion on the electrical system in the e/r told a sad story. Back-feeding all over the boat. I, with the help of others, spent hours cleaning and treating numerous neglected 4/0 DC(-) terminals down there. .. taking back years of low maintenance found in the hard access corners. Happily all efforts were rewarded with 100% success and all Back-feeding Electrical Gremlins were properly fed and disappeared. Sorry for the hi-jack, It just made me look back into the archives of being a marine electrician. |
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Any update, has she arrived?
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It is currently at Marine Max in Quincy MA getting some punch list items taken care of.
It will probably be on the lake in 7 to 10 days. (Took notice of APS's concern about raising the lake level so waiting for a little more water to go over the Lakeport Dam) :laugh: |
Slow and steady
I figured I'd stick my nose into this just a bit. A boat of that size is probably not going to run at speed even if that speed is 15mph at full throttle. So if its going to be a low speed sight seeing vessel (like the Mount Washington) what's the harm? I welcome any boating enthusiast's idea of what works for them so long as it doesn't negatively impact the general boating experience of the rest of the population. Can't wait to see her!
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Personally I’m looking forward to seeing it, where will it be docked?
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Space?
I'm not sure there's enough space there without dock additions. The 53'' Caver was docked at Silver Sands.
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Could be....
... any celebs or big money. Tilton already said not MB from GI. So..... who? Lots of old money.. and new money up here.
Mitt? Nah, too busy playing politics. Sandler? Hmmm... good to see him on SNL last night and see a true talent on that show after a long dry spell. But doesn't seem that he likes to call that much attention to himself in the every day. One of the Patriots ? How about HHH or his father-in-law? Damon of Affleck? A Marriot? Maybe DickieBfromHB who is FINALLY leaving CA for a better place among family here in Nh? While it is "privately owned", perhaps intention of operating as a business? Maybe anybody that flies under the radar and we never find out as registered in a corp name ... Like the jets that fly in and out of LAC. Oh wait! A Saudi Sheik who bought it for his sons to get away for a weekend a year and who will bring it to the NASWA if can get under the bridge. Could be just another rich person who will park it and use it 2 times a year when up for vacation. Going to be great seeing it after all of this suspense. The build up has certainly been propagated by postings on this forum... including mine. No matter who owns it, I admit it would be nice to have that expendable income and I look forward to seeing it! :liplick: S |
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It was “My Uther Humma” or something closer to that - it was docked at Silver Sands in days past. |
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Jet skis are going to love the wake from this boat
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WOW,she is beautiful
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Can't help but think of the movie "Secondhand Lions".
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what size and model is that? Trying to match photos from Galeon website
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Found a picture of a used 2018 sky deck that looks an awful lot like it. A measly $1.19 million[emoji50]
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It's a beautiful boat. In my opinion, it's too big for the lake, but if someone else wants it and has the means to buy and run it, so be it. I look forward to seeing it out cruising.
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Size Matters
They won't be able to get that into the Back Bay with the water level so high currently.
But seriously, trying to dock a boat that size at one of the town docks during the weekend will be impossible unless they arrive around 7am. It's tough finding a spot with a 20 footer. I suppose they would drop anchor out a bit and run a dingy in. |
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My guess is that's at Shep Brown's, down on Meredith Neck, with the brand new town asphalt paving, there.
Am I right, or am I right? Is tough to say ….. maybe is not … on second look? Here's to a happening big 58?' boat ….. built in Gdansk, Poland by Galeon Yachts …. on the Baltic Sea ….. it needs the local Zumba talent doing a Zumba class up front on the bow, as it slowly cruises the big lake ….. (Zumba music here). That trailer is probably 8.5' wide x 53' long, so how big is the boat? |
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The upside would be you could probably walk across Meredith Bay easily on a busy weekend :) |
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The boat arrived in Gilford this afternoon about 1 PM. It is scheduled for launch on Monday afternoon.
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Pictures from the road trip.
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I am enjoying the thought of this guy coming up to anywhere trying to dock though- and the excitement of the three boats that could fit in her space when she leaves! :laugh: |
Wow!!!
Bon Voyage, Summa Humma!
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Big boat
I saw this boat (summa humma) today on Route 11 somewhere south of Alton Circle being escorted by police and "follow me" cars. It is really big.
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Dock space???
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560 Skydeck Extraordinaire
www.galeonyachts.us/en/model/560-skydeck/ says it has a draft of 4'7" .... seems pretty shallow ..... could hang a trolling motor on the bow and go bass'n for smallies! |
Having owned three 40 plus footers over the years on the lake, docking can be a challenge, not from the actual process, it’s all about the available space! I spent many hours “hovering” by myself ( enjoying every moment) after having dropped everyone else off to shop or eat.
I’ll certainly enjoy watching her on the lake, and wish Marc many, many enjoyable times on the water. She’s beautiful! |
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