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Originally Posted by Icelander
I'm concerned that going too much over 150' long might interefere with the owner's freedom of movement. He likes to visit a number of harbours and it would be a hassle if he always had to anchor way off and launch a tender to go ashore in. That will do for snort visits, but he regards Galveston, New Orleans, St. Lucia, Domincia and a small number of other destinations as 'home' and would always have wanted to be able to moor for a nice long time, being able to embark and disembark using a simple gangway, when at those places.
I mean, sure, I can declare that at St. Lucia and Domincia, he has built an enormous private dock. But it's rather more plausible to decree that when the Penemue was designed in the 1960s, Kessler went for the biggest, fastest, most powerful superyacht that still wouldn't be too big for his favorite destinations and stop-offs.
I'm just not sure at what point he'd start to have trouble (I know height matters a lot as well, but for a similar design, it will correlate with length). Nor do I really know whether 150' is long enough to fit 40 people for extended periods of time, a decent tender, infirmary, workshop, armoury, library, ritual room, alchemist's lab and everything needed to keep the crew and guests sane, healthy and happy.
My gut feeling is that I'll need to scale up in all dimensions from the 'average' fast-moving superyacht at 150' to get enough space while keeping a sleek hull shape, but I have no idea by how much and at what point I need to worry about needing special facilities and not being able to use any marinas in some of the destination places.
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If you want a smaller old warship consider the Australian
Bathurst-class corvette. They were 186 ft long, and wikipedia says that after the war a large number were sold to civilian operators. They only had a speed of 15 knots, but that might be higher once you take out all of the weaponry. They had a compliment of 85 people and since they were involved in convoy escort, I assume that they were at sea for extended periods of time. However, the wiki article does say conditions for the enlisted sailors were not good, but that could probably be improved with a much smaller crew as a private yacht.