Stable, comfortable, efficient, powerful After seeing the engine room, we head up to the
Stable, comfortable, efficient, powerful—these are the
pilothouse. Located amidships for minimal motion at
attributes that make Shearwater the kind of cruising
sea, it has excellent, 360-degree visibility and a bevy of
vessel that is capable of bringing the Marks’ 1,150
Furuno electronics, as well as a Weather Worx satellite
nautical miles and excited to travel much further.
service, cell phone and wireless systems and three satellite phone systems for offshore cruising. From there, we go up to the equally impressive flybridge, with its supplementary helm, pair of captain’s seats, roomy dining area and wide vantage. Down from the flybridge and aft of the pilothouse, a pair of covered tenders—one 14 feet in length and the other nine feet long—wait until they are needed with a hydraulic crane’s 20-foot boom prepared to drop them in the water at a moment’s notice. Here, Scott Marks also points out Shearwater’s “flopper stoppers,” a pair of hydraulic stabilizers that resist roll when the vessel is at anchor.
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So, where is Shearwater heading next? For now, it is going to remain on Lake Michigan, taking off for short cruises throughout this summer. Over the winter it will be dry docked, and then, when the weather clears next spring, it will voyage out again for a long cruise around the Great Lakes. From there, it could go anywhere.
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