The Super Bowl is over and the Steelers have won their 6th Lombardi Trophy. I am not a Steelers fan but I have to give them and Arizona credit for one heck of an entertaining football game. But I’m here to talk about boats and not football. If you’re in the game I am in you get as excited about a great new boat as footballs players do about winning the big game. I think that if there were a Super Bowl for Boats the Back Cove 37 would be a 21 point favorite.
As I said at the end of last week the boat performed as well as we had hoped and then some. The figures I like best are the ones that appeal to my boating lifestyle here in the waters of Casco Bay. At 23.9 knots she consumes 19.2 Gallons per hour and the noise (or lack thereof) at the helm is 82 Db. I could get really excited about a run from Freeport, where I keep my boat, to Rockland, in under three hours.
As you can see in these shots we did not rig her electronics mast for the engineering trials
Only at WOT does she go beyond the one mile per gallon tipping point. At 26 knots she is still going 1.17 nautical miles per gallon. Now we do need to run her in warm air and in warmer, shallow water next Monday to really firm up these results.
