{"id":56074,"date":"2018-10-16T00:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/?p=56074"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:10:13","slug":"hatteras-crosses-the-rubicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/hatteras-gt63-crosses-rubicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatteras Crosses the Rubicon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Views like this one from a Hatteras GT63 sistership are virtually all the Post One<\/em> crew had for about 4,000 miles.<\/span>\n Hatteras<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Capt. John Crupi feared the “what ifs.” It was, after all, believed to be the first time a boat of this kind might do what he was preparing to do with Post One<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s a Hatteras GT63 with a 1,900-gallon fuel capacity that will get her to the canyons at 40-plus knots, but not across oceans. And yet, that\u2019s what her owner wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The crew had endured a few bad experiences in 15 years of towing a 45-footer, and transport ships didn’t offer routes near the grounds the owner wanted to fish. So, the idea was to cruise Post One<\/em> on her own bottom 4,085 miles from Panama to Bermuda to the Azores, in tandem with the owner’s mothership, the 148-foot Cheoy Lee Dorothea III<\/em>. The team had to figure out how to transfer diesel to the Hatteras from the mothership’s reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Underway. Three times during the trip from Bermuda to the Azores alone. At 1,500 gallons a pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

First, they tested a side-by-side setup, but wakes from both boats created havoc. Then they tossed a messenger line with a monkey\u2019s fist at the end to the Hatteras\u2019 bow. \u201cWe pretended that the messenger line was a fuel hose, to see if we could keep it there at 10 knots,\u201d Crupi says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Testing the Toughness of a Tournament Machine<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n
\n (Clockwise from left) The 20-foot beam on the Hatteras GT63 not only helps in rough seas, but also allows for sizable accommodations belowdecks. The standard layout includes three heads and four staterooms: two with double berths for couples, and two with bunk-style twin berths for kids or crew; The crew of the Cheoy Lee Dorothea III<\/em> keeps an eye on the sport-fishing tender Post One<\/em> during the transatlantic crossing; Command central is on the flybridge, with guest seating to port and starboard for spotting the bite in all directions.<\/span>\n Hatteras<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

That worked in seas up to 6 feet, so the system became attaching a fuel line to the messenger line. Crew would connect it to a special fitting and open a valve to transfer fuel. Post One<\/em> got nail-biting low on fuel once as they waited out 6- to 8-footers, but “from that point,” Crupi says, “it was pretty easy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re ready to do it again, on November\u2019s return crossing to Brazil \u2014 3,000-plus miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re an aggressive program,\u201d Crupi told Yachting from the Azores in August, shortly after hooking up a 700-pound blue marlin. \u201cIt\u2019s not for the faint of heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Hatteras GT63 cruises \u2014 on her own bottom \u2014 from Bermuda to the Azores, refueling three times during the transatlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Kim Kavin","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20181016","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"163","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"A Hatteras GT63 cruises from the Azores to Bermuda on her own bottom.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Hatteras Proves its Hulls Can Go for the Long Haul %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"DUOPPF2RTZDNLH6VRKVBEJHXGE","arc_website_url":"hatteras-gt63-crosses-rubicon","custom_permalink":"hatteras-gt63-crosses-rubicon\/","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":0,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[455,164],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}