Posted on Trawlers & Trawlering List: >Does anyone have experience with the FP Maryland Power Cat 37? If >so, looking for suggestions on how she will handle 5 adults for a >week long trip. From: "Dave Cooper" <captdave@surfbvi.com> Subject: Re: T&T: Fountain Pajot Maryland 37 Power Cat To: "'Trawlers & Trawlering List'" <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Message-ID: <000001c5be9f$a9b81c20$0100a8c0@Dell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Roy, it would depend on where, how friendly the folks were with each other and the weather during the week. The Moorings has/had several of the FP37's in charter service in Florida, the Bahamas and the BVI. Typically they are chartered by one or 2 couples or small families. I doubt if you would be comfortable for a week with 5 adults. They are fairly economical depending upon the load, power option and the right hand. At 18-19kts they can use 16 gals/hr with a pair of 165's. With the smaller 125's top speed is about 16 kts with a fuel burn of 12-14 gph. However with the smaller engines at 8-9 kts they are quite good burning 2/3 gph. We managed to coax 950 miles out of the tanks on one delivery!! The fuel burns varies quite a lot depending on the load as they are very sensitive to the amount of gear on-board. Some guests come with 10 bags, rent dive gear with 2/3 tanks apiece, provision like they were going around the world and then wonder why the boat is a little sluggish!! Pretty wet even over the flybridge in a 4/5 ft or greater sea at any speed above 8/9 knots. I don't own one but do have a few thousand sea miles on them delivering them about Florida to Bahamas and the Caribbean. Nice boat in protected waters..not offshore, IMHO Dave Swan Song Tortola, BVI