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In a boat with hard chines and a relatively flat bottom aft, I have no doubt that the smoothest ride is at the stern. However, with a boat like mine with a canoe stern and a rounded bottom, it seems to me that the smoothest ride is somewhere around the center of gravity (or whatever the correct term is). For Katahdin, it feels like the smoothest ride is right around where the pilot house is, which is just slightly aft of half way back. My seat-of-the-pants feeling for the way the boat is moving tells me that the bow and stern are moving more than is the pilot house. Is the boat somehow fooling me? I don't think so, but maybe.
Lee Robinson
"Katahdin" 42-foot, Seaton-designed, raised pilot house trawler
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