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I'm incredulous that some of you examined the line drawings, read Les Lampman's statement, and still think that the Marinaut 215 hull is flat. Please don't get offended by this statement, but you are looking at this with black vs. white logic. While our technological society is based upon...

Boris, If memory serves me correctly, the less precise knife edge test was initially proposed, but was ultimately rejected due to monetary constraints. And you are right: it was the most perfect myopic mirror ever made. Thank you for your insights on traveling in heavy head seas. If you...

THE MARINAUT 215 IS NOT A FLAT BOTTOMED BOAT

Les Lampman wrote in his Facebook account on October 31, 2012: "I thought I'd share this photo again. In viewing the boat on the trailer, and especially viewing it from the stern, folks think the Marinaut 215 is a "flat bottom" boat. That just isn't the case. There's a lot of "V" forward and...

Your Cape Cruiser Venture 23' is a beautiful boat; we were on the My Lee when we were in the PNW. On Dave's website, he lists his Marinaut (it is heavier due to the way it was constructed) at 2,200 pounds. The new design is significantly under 2,000 pounds. It must be a great asset to have an...

I moved the discussion of the nature of the Marinaut's design to the Marinaut forum. Unfortunately, what started out as a sincere desire for advice from the C-Dory site degenerated into a needless and pointless discourse on the comparison of the Marinaut to CD 22. I personally like both boats...

Many people continue think that the Marinaut is a flat bottom boat, despite what Les Lampman had stated a few month's ago. Looking at pictures is not really going to help anyone. I think what leads people to this conclusion is not seeing the line drawings. So I went to Dave's Tolland Marine...

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Bob, Showing a picture of the stern looking downward is analogous to saying the world is flat as judged by my patio; it's non sequitur. I don't have my Stanley level handy, but my patio looks pretty flat to me. There are planing hulls and displacement hulls. All boats that are planing hulls...

Thank you Jay, you make perfect sense. As I stated in my previous post, Steve's Marinaut may have gone a little faster with his Permatrim, but I don't want to travel that fast in those conditions, either. This probably is more of a seamanship issue -- not from the perspective of how one...

Hello Bob, thank you for responding. First of all, it is not correct that the Marinaut is a flat bottom boat. Take a close look at the hull photos in Les Lampan's Facebook account. It even has a keel of sorts, and maintains a V, albeit slight, until it reaches the stern. As you stated to me...

In following seas, we lift the bow up slightly using engine trim. Our boat is a little different than CD 22's due to its even weight distribution, so we don't need to move weight around to adjust trim. I certainly agree with you about speed and trim/Permatrim -- excessive speed can result in a...

George and Constant Craving got me thinking. Why can we move along at up to 15 knots into a 3 foot head sea, but when it hits 4 foot head seas, we really can't make forward progress, and are lucky if we can go 3.5 knots? Having traveled on both coasts, I think Long Island Sound is worse in...

George and Constant Craving got me thinking. Why can we move along at up to 15 knots into a 3 foot head sea, but when it hits 4 foot head seas, we really can't make forward progress, and are lucky if we can go 3.5 knots? Having traveled on both coasts, I think Long Island is worse in many ways...

Folks, 1) According to Webster's Online Dictionary, a chop is "a short, irregular motion of waves." People often characterize chops as light, medium and heavy. 2) According to thefreedictionary, a confused sea is "a highly disturbed water surface without a single, well-defined direction of wave...