Tom,

We owned an Endeavour 36 for 3 years and did a good bit of offshore (20-30
miles out) fishing offf the coast of Georgia. We found the boat to be a
satisfactory fishing boat, and the inlets in Ga. are particularly rough. As
Henry says the PDQ is a much lighter boat which may translate to a less sturdy
boat. When we were in the looking process, the national sales manager of PDQ
told me that he would not want to run their boat from the flybridge while in 4
foot seas. I have never been on a PDQ except at the dock.

We sold our Endeavour 36 to but an Endeavour 44 so obviously have been pleased
with Endeavour.

If you plan to do a lot of rough sea running, neither boat may be the best
choice as both are really designed for coastal cruising.

Ralph Small

Ralph,

You wrote:

"If you plan to do a lot of rough sea running, neither boat may be the
best
choice as both are really designed for coastal cruising."

Are you referring to the PDQ 34 and Endeavour 36 only, or are you
including the Endeavour 44 as well.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: rbsmall42@yahoo.com
To: power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 3:55 AM
Subject: [PCW] Stability - PDQ and Endeavour

Tom,

We owned an Endeavour 36 for 3 years and did a good bit of offshore
(20-30
miles out) fishing offf the coast of Georgia. We found the boat to be a
satisfactory fishing boat, and the inlets in Ga. are particularly
rough. As
Henry says the PDQ is a much lighter boat which may translate to a less
sturdy
boat. When we were in the looking process, the national sales manager
of PDQ
told me that he would not want to run their boat from the flybridge
while in 4
foot seas. I have never been on a PDQ except at the dock.

We sold our Endeavour 36 to but an Endeavour 44 so obviously have been
pleased
with Endeavour.

If you plan to do a lot of rough sea running, neither boat may be the
best
choice as both are really designed for coastal cruising.

Ralph Small

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Ralph states: "the national sales manager of PDQ told me that he would not
want to run their boat from the flybridge while in 4 foot seas."

I suspect the reason the PDQ manager may have made that statement isn't
because of the threat to stability of the vessel, but rather because the
ride on the flybridge in 4 foot seas could become very uncomfortable or even
dangerous.  Catamarans have a fairly sharp motion in beam seas as each hull
tries to follow the water surface in the wave crests and troughs.

Malcolm could put this into proper naval engineering terms, but basically
the higher you are above the "pivot point" of this motion the more amplified
the motion, and therefore accelerations, become.  Picture yourself at the
top of a tall mast in rough water - you better be holding on tight!

Bob Deering
Juneau, Alaska