I just found your videos. I have an NC44 for 2 years, but I haven't been able to do much sailing on it yet. It's spent one of those years getting the bottom worked on and the rigging changed. I've maybe taken it out a dozen times, just twice for an overnight sail on the Gulf of Mexico off of Houston. I am disappointed that I've been unable to get it to sail upwind, but i console myself with the fact that it is a motor sailer and it's a far more comfortable boat to be on in 1-4 foot waves than a lighter boat. I see the 30 some foot Beneteau's bouncing up and down in 3' waves while I hardly feel them. Of course they zoom past me... I'm old and per naps to racing.
What I have liked originally in Nauticats was the accommodation. Grace, Space, Pace was Jaguar slogan once. Nauticats have similar state. One can sail and enjoy comfortable living at sea. Are these boats racers... No. Can you adventure with them for months on even in cold enviroments. Yes. That capability drew me to these boats. Being a sailor i was slightly dissapointed on the windward capabilities. You can go only maybe 60 degrees of wind. But living arrangements are superb to the money to compensate that.
I just found your videos. I have an NC44 for 2 years, but I haven't been able to do much sailing on it yet. It's spent one of those years getting the bottom worked on and the rigging changed. I've maybe taken it out a dozen times, just twice for an overnight sail on the Gulf of Mexico off of Houston. I am disappointed that I've been unable to get it to sail upwind, but i console myself with the fact that it is a motor sailer and it's a far more comfortable boat to be on in 1-4 foot waves than a lighter boat. I see the 30 some foot Beneteau's bouncing up and down in 3' waves while I hardly feel them. Of course they zoom past me... I'm old and per naps to racing.
What I have liked originally in Nauticats was the accommodation. Grace, Space, Pace was Jaguar slogan once. Nauticats have similar state.
One can sail and enjoy comfortable living at sea. Are these boats racers... No. Can you adventure with them for months on even in cold enviroments. Yes. That capability drew me to these boats. Being a sailor i was slightly dissapointed on the windward capabilities. You can go only maybe 60 degrees of wind.
But living arrangements are superb to the money to compensate that.
When you are running 5 knots under power, how much fuel are you using?
@@SVLOKEE about 3l per hour. I have quite big Volvo. Its running about 1500rpm.