@@DavidPaulNewtonScott Im looking for a cheap house in Portugal my friend. Let me know if you see any cheap properties. I currently have a leisure 23ft great boats Westerly
I would never intend on planing but having the v sections of a planing boat on a displacement boat means if you were ever cought by a large wave you could plane down it. An engine would never get it up on the plane but a very steep wave would. There is also another situation where freak weather may cause a mooring in say a river to have the river flowing faster than the hull displacement speed. The boat would then get swamped with the ability to lift up onto the plane no problem. When I ever get round to building a boat to my own design you will see some pretty odd features but they will work. Watch this space. I lost control of my original channel but you can see my old boat which I am in the process of buying back. Just type in the search "enntering Limehouse basin". I misspelt enntering but I left it hat way as the search engine goes straight for it.
I am living in the Philippines at the moment when I left Watchet things were going well for them they had been dredging for months and the place was looking good. I hope they pull it round the local people need a boost in trade to the town.
