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Understanding the math

Let's take a 45-foot DWL yacht.

Ted Hood's 52 Long Range Fast Explorer The speed would be equal to the square root of the waterline length multiplied by 1.34. This is the maximum hull speed.

Stabilized or not?

Lacking sails and rig, power cruising vessels must achieve stability either through a form-stable hull or mechanical stabilization systems.

This is an area in which it pays to listen carefully to salespeople and current owners, then note the vessel's performance during sea trials.

Yankee simplicity

These New England-built cabin boats pack efficient performance into a look that never loses its appeal.

The Dyer 29 was designed to be a seakindly boat that a couple can take cruising. Cecil Lyon's life had become too busy for a boat, so he decided to sell his beloved 1972 Dyer 29, Sea Lion, a single-engine New England-style cabin boat.

The new generation of bluewater runners

Multiple-outboard open boats are taking anglers farther and faster in search of fish

Brad Berk lives to fish, and his triple-engine 33-foot Yellowfin (similar to the one here) gets him to where the big ones are in a hurry. In the Northeast, you have to travel about 80 to 100 miles offshore to reach the canyons - an expanse of the Atlantic ripe with yellowfin, bigeye and albacore tuna, marlin and the occasional wahoo and dolphin. Anglers like Brad Berk, a Niantic, Conn., stockbroker with three children under the age of 7, lack the time to run a big, inboard-powered convertible 10 hours to reach the fish.

Firm believers in safety gear

Proper safety equipment is even more important than tools for fishing in these outboard canyon runners, say our skippers.

Brad Berk's safety arsenal includes two satellite phones, two fixed-mount VHF radios, a hand-held VHF radio, two GPS chart plotters, a hand-held GPS, an EPIRB and a six-man life raft.

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