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#1 ·
Don't have a lot of info on this boat other than it is around 30ft. was wondering if anyone recognized what she might be. Owner is asking around 3k and has a rebuilt A4.
Located on the Ct by Deep River landing



Peter
 
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#4 ·
Somehow I doubt that. The OI 41 was one of the first boats inducted into the Sailboat Hall of Fame and is likely still the highest production big boat ever.

I suspect the OI series made Charlie more money than all his other boats combined.
 
#6 ·
If low price, accommodation space and comfort are your priorities and sailing performance considerably less so, definitely.
 
#8 · (Edited)
In real estate they say "Location, location, location". For ANY boat it's more like "Condition, condition, condition"

On the face of it, sounds like a good deal, but you should seriously consider getting a pro to survey it. Remember, there's no such thing as a "free" boat, and a boat that sells for $3k might cost you that much or far more after you buy it. Could be the best money you ever spend.
 
#9 ·
As a Morgan 33 Out Island owner, I believe that you'll be amazed at just how well the Out Island series sails. Prior to my purchasing the 33 everyone, including the owner, said on a good day, with 15 knots of steady wind, on a beam or broad reach, you might get 4 or 5 out of the boat. With a clean bottom, 15 knots, beam or better yet, a broad reach, 7.5 to 8.2 is not out of the question.

Additionally, that full-keeled boat is not tender, doesn't heel very much, has far more living space than boats 4 to 6 feet longer, lots of headroom in the cabin and beneath the boom, and handles like a dream.

If the boat in the photo passes inspection by a certified surveyor, go for it - you will NOT be disappointed!

Cheers,

Gary :cool:
 
#12 · (Edited)
(snip) Prior to my purchasing the 33 everyone, including the owner, said on a good day, with 15 knots of steady wind, on a beam or broad reach, you might get 4 or 5 out of the boat. With a clean bottom, 15 knots, beam or better yet, a broad reach, 7.5 to 8.2 is not out of the question.(snip)
The max possible hull speed for the 33 OI is 7.07 knotts, no matter how good the day is. :) Might get a bit more from heeling (and therefor less drag), but an additional 17%? Not being a smartass, really want to know if that much over hull speed is possible (other than "surfing" down big swells).
 
#10 ·
There is a Tartan 30 close by me that I could probably buy for 5 grand, put another
25-30k into her and have a nice 15k boat. I actually had a yard offer to give me a Cheoy Lee 32 but even that would not have been a good deal. It's just the nature of the beast. You have to look very carefully and count all the cost. Once you have done that.... DOUBLE it.
 
#11 ·
Even if she surveys well, still figure on double your 3,000.
over next couple years...but have seen guys buy cheap old boats with working motor and old sails clean her up a bit and go sailing.
Also recognize the owner made larger black steel boat from cruise up to Deep River 2 weeks ago. The Morgan was not tied up
next to her at the time.
 
#15 ·
boat is NOT a buccaneer.
morgan is a major sea going marque and is able to do that which no buccaneer owner is able to do with a boat.
hank mckune, owner and designer of yorktown yachts was proud to say he aided charlie morgan, and worked with him--he also bragged his yorkies were the ugliest boat designed and built, second only to charlie morgan's outisland. however--is beautiful to be ugly,and every design has its main uses. morgan outisland are roomy and they sail. dont know how well, as some folks owning morgans all em flying pigs, but then i own and love to sail my formosa--lol

ok so now i am in trouble with both buccaneer owners and morgan outisland owners..LOL
 
#16 ·
Thanks for all the excellent replies, as always sailneters have the answers. Even thou I'm boat less right now I'm always looking, but not quite ready to take the dive into another at this time. I may just for the fun of it go and look. And I would never buy one without a proper survey - even a free one. Before I bought my last boat I looked at several and paid for two surveys that I then walked away from.
Hugo - sounds like you know Deep river landing my brother sent me the pic, he captains the Becky Thatcher on weekends. Pm me if you would like to have a beer sometime or need an additional crew. Always enjoy meeting other sailors and new boats.
Peter
 
#17 ·
I am usually a bit skeptical when I see max speed readings off of a GPS. You can introduce an error by either having the sampling rate set too fast (a lot of factory settings have this at a second or less) and/or having the antenna mounted far from the center of motion. So, if the antenna sways and the sample rate is fast, the relative motion of the antenna is added to the speed of the boat. When I was campaigning my boat I wanted to measure the acceleration out of tacks so I set the sampling speed really fast which made the max speed pretty useless but did give me some pretty good data I could analyze on the computer. Normally, I set the GPS to sample at 30 second intervals. That said, I think that Travelin Easy’s over-all speed was pretty fair- averaging 5.6 knots over four hours nets out to running at 80% of hull speed for a good portion of a day.
 
#18 ·
George,

On that particular day, the waters of Chesapeake Bay were nearly flat, the wind was steady for most of the day, which translated into very little fore to aft hull movement. That led me to believe the overall accuracy of the GPS SOG was quite reliable. That 10.1 maximum speed was held for about 20 minutes, which also leads me to believe it was a valid reading.

Cheers,

Gary :cool:
 
#19 ·
Easy, when you say that the GPS displayed the 10.1 kts max speed was held for twenty minutes –does that mean your boat was traveling at a constant 10.1 kts for that period of time? Or, was that the max recorded speed? If the latter, what was the new max speed after the twenty minutes? I know that on my GPS (both Garmin and Raymarine), I can adjust the sample rate which the unit uses to do the distance and rate calculations. And I know that the relative slow sailing speeds, it is easy to introduce an error with a fast sampling rate. Have you had the opportunity to download the stored memory into your computer for analysis? It is pretty illuminating. The algorithm is using the distance between two points of only a few feet to calculate velocity. It is amazing how much this data fluctuates and it is only after averaging over longer periods of time does the unit achieve it’s high degree of accuracy. On faster moving vehicles like planes and autos, the relative motion type errors become small and inconsequential. On my lowly Catalina, I regularly exceed 10 kts and I occasionally get up to 15. In fact, my max walking pace (as recorded by my Garmin Map 12) can get up to 12 MPH (but I must confess, to do it, I swing my arms while holding the GPS). I still say that your average speed over the four hour trip was admirable and your boat is the opposite of being a slug. But if you are sure you are getting those kinds of speeds over time, you ought to be racing because with your PHRF rating you would pretty much win every race you would enter.
 
#20 ·
Sorry, but there is NO WAY an OI 30 is going to do 10 knots through the water unless, maybe, surfing down a big wave in high winds.

I think there might be some confusion between SOG and boatspeed going on here. Around here, you can easily get some crazy SOG going with the tide through narrow passes.
 
#21 ·
JohnB, we were in a 5-mile wide stretch of Chesapeake Bay - not a narrow river or channel. The SOG on the Lowrance GPS is extremely accurate, and I checked the tidal currents during the same time frame and the maximum tidal current was less than 1 knot, so that wouldn't account for it either. I knew there would be skeptics - that's why I photographed the GPS.

The Lowrance HDS7 GPS/Plotter is a pretty amazing device, and over the years I've found the Lowrance systems to be extremely accurate, much more so than the Garmin and Raymarine systems many of my friends own. Part of this may have something to do with the number of satellites being tracked at any given time. Obviously, the more satellites tracked, the greater the degree of accuracy. The few times I've looked at the satellite tracking information on the display I've noted that there seemed to be at least 5 to 7 in range that were identified. As for the sampling rate, I've never had a reason to look at it, but I know it is adjustable with just a few button pushes and menus.

I talked with the local, Lowrance rep about boat movement affecting speed accuracy and he agreed that if the boat was rocking in any direction it would have some affect, and the violently the boat's fore to aft movement, the greater the degree of inaccuracy. The boat speed at one point ranged from 9.9 to 10.1 for a period of about 20 minutes. During that period the wind was fairly consistent, very few puffs, and at the end of about 3 hours, like almost every day during the summer, it died off to 5 to 10, at which point the black flies moved in for a feast and the sun began to set.

While I realize those wonderful hull speed formulas were created by some fairly smart folks, for some unexplained reason, they just never seem to be all that accurate. To unequivocally state that the Morgan OI will sail at a certain speed because the math doesn't allow it, well, like I said at the outset - that's why I took the photos. And the guy that was with me on the boat, who was at the helm at the time, is a 25-year veteran sailing instructor, was amazed as well. He verified the speed on his hand-held GPS - just to confirm the Lowrance readings. His handheld GPS was reading 10.4, which I guess is within the margin of error. Maybe that ice cold water that is more dense has a bearing on your sailing speeds in Canadian waters. ;)

Cheers,

Gary :cool:
 
#22 ·
Gary, sorry, it just doesn't work that way. The fact that two GPS units displayed similar errors doesn't make them less in error. If you stand a 1/4 mile due West of a large iron ore deposit, you could have a hundred compasses, and they will all be in error. The factors that make any GPS unit report errors will make just about all such units in those circumstances report similar errors. For example, it's very common for a stationary GPS to report that the vehicle or vessel in which the GPS is located is either moving or turning, when if fact it's doing neither. Yes, there are well known exceptions to displacement hull speed calcs, but your OI 33 certainly does NOT fall in any of the excepted categories (e.g. multi-hull or ULDB). I understand you took photographs, but they can only prove the possible degree of error of your instruments given the circumstances. Try turning on your GPS while at the dock and watch it for 10 minutes. More than likely it will show your boat changing heading, picking up speed, etc.

BTW, 5 satellites is barely above the minimum number for accurately determining location (4). There are many authorative documents available online to explain why a GPS errors on speed. To pare it down the gist is:
The most inaccurate is the method that tries to
estimate an average speed over some
"accumulated distance" between trackpoints.
Due to trackpoint inaccuracies, the line
connecting all track points is a zig-zag, even
if the real path of a speed competitor is a
smooth or straight line. Since the length of
this zig-zag is always longer than a
smooth/straight line, the "average speed"
determined with the "accumulated distance"
method always overestimates the real speed.
The less accurate are trackpoints (the less
accurate is a GPS unit) - the larger the
estimated "average" speed and the more
impressive is the "achievement"…
Think about it. The GPS reports position with an accuracy of 16 meters (you can't even get that accurate with 5 sats in view). That means the actual position is anywhere within a 16 meter RADIUS of reported postion. That's a circle with a diameter of about 100 feet. That makes it obvioust that what George said is absolutely on point: the sampling rate MUST affect the accuracy of the reported speed.
 
#23 ·
Hate to spoil the fun, here, but it's probably about time to note that Gary's plotter is set to display MPH, instead of KNOTS...

Even so, sustained speeds of 8.5 knots on a Morgan 33 is a bit difficult to imagine without a bit of assist from the tide... Without knowing the date in question, I'd still have to guess that the tide was likely on the ebb during much of that ride...

 
#24 ·
I know it was set on MPH, and I never mentioned knots, but a lot of others sure did. As for the accuracy of the speed, I guess that's up in the air (lol) at this time. One thing is certain though. I zoomed past a lot of larger sailboats, probably a couple hundred that day, and made the trip down the bay faster than I, personally, have ever traveled on a monohull boat.

This debate could go on forever, but not for me. I'm headed out this morning for sunny climes and beautiful waters 1,150 miles south of Havre de Grace, MD - the lower, Florida Keys.

All the best,

Gary :cool:
 
#26 ·
I know it was set on MPH, and I never mentioned knots, but a lot of others sure did.
Gary, I had not clicked on the link to your thread, so I didn't see the pic of your trip page until Jon posted it in this thread. But you really DID mention knots:
Prior to my purchasing the 33 everyone, including the owner, said on a good day, with 15 knots of steady wind, on a beam or broad reach, you might get 4 or 5 out of the boat. With a clean bottom, 15 knots, beam or better yet, a broad reach, 7.5 to 8.2 is not out of the question.
No mention of mph. You can't switch units of measurement in a statement like that. Would you do it with Fahrenheit and Celsius? The calculated hull speed for your boat, converted to mph, is 8.1. So it looks like you (inadvertently) switched units from knots to mph, hence the reaction to your speed claims.
This debate could go on forever, but not for me. I'm headed out this morning for sunny climes and beautiful waters 1,150 miles south of Havre de Grace, MD - the lower, Florida Keys.

All the best,

Gary :cool:
Wow, envy you that! Hope you have a great trip, fair winds and following seas!
 
#25 · (Edited)
Using the time displayed and the date of September 22 which I beleive was the Saturday mentioned the assist would have been .55 knots of current at Howell Point current reading which is just north of Still Pond 1.5 miles from Worton Creek entrance.

We were out sailing that day headed about the same course 15 miles away going to Annapolis, and there was 15-20 wind with flat conditions. Our C&C MKIII ( racer cruiser) which is not know for being a slow boat was humming along at 7.9 knots with a .2 current assist.

I know Gary and I am sure the MPH was an honest mistake. Since he was comparing to previous data he used on his same boat he was really moving compared to what he had done before. I dont think he was comparing to other boats who obviously have a lower prf rating( Morgan OI 33- 177 vs C&C MKIII 127).

Dont think he would want to challenge us racing. First he would need to stow all his liveaboard stuff now and lighten his load ( smile).

Hope you are having a good time heading south.

Great day for sailing
 
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