![]() The full height motor well bulkhead provides excellent protection from following seas. The safe self-bailing cockpit is deep and wide: 5' long (1,5 m), 8' wide (2,40 m) and 28" deep (71 cm). This allows to install the engine on a bracket and frees a lot of room in the cockpit. New, August 2004: we added a closed transom version ot the plans package. The transom can easily be modified to accept other shaft lengths. This boats transom is designed for a standard 20" shaft. She also differs from our faster planing hulls through her deeper forefoot and generous skeg for stability and tracking. The soft riding vee hull requires more labor and materials to build but this hull shape is required for more exposed waters. The reduced deadrise aft increases stability at slow speed or rest.Ĭompared to our HM19, the vee hull will pound less and give much better tracking when running off a steep sea. The calculated top speeds with moderate load (displacement 2,600 lbs) are as follow:Ĭompared to traditional lobster boat types, the Down East 23 hard-chine vee bottom hull will not only be faster than the typical round bilge type but also deflects spray more efficiently. However, the cockpit floor is still well above the waterline and self-bailing. To provide 6' 2" (185 cm) of standing headroom in the pilot house, the sole is lower than in our NV23. The Down East 23 has an enormous capacity: she can be loaded with up to 2,000 lbs of passengers, engine and gear. The Down East 23 will perform well at displacement speeds in bad weather and run efficiently at moderate planing speeds with relatively small engines. Displacement boats are the ones with an S/L2) (S/L ratio is speed in knots divided by square root of WL in feet. This means that the transition to planing speeds will be smooth without any excessive change of trim and without the wasteful suction of warped bottoms running at an S/L higher than 2. We kept the deep forefoot of the modern fast lobster boat hull but the underbody is a true monohedron. The hull type is similar to what is now frequently called a picnic boat a seaworthy planing boat but the topsides are more in the Down East cruising boat style. She is not a true lobster boat of the double wedge type or a pure fast planing hull. ![]() ![]() She combines traditional styling with an efficient, easy to build planing hull. The DE23 is the long cabin version of our NV23. ![]()
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