53 feet of comfort, openness, space, beauty and toughness
Mike Werling
seamagazine.com
Reviewed Sep 2016
We pushed the throttles for the twin Volvo D11 diesels full forward from a dead stop and jumped to 20 knots in about 11 seconds, with help from the Nibral five-blade props, with very little bowrise, even with the tabs off. Once the tabs were engaged, the boat eliminated what little bowrise there was, and hard turns and figure-8 maneuvers resulted in very little lean with the tabs below half. The deep-V hull with a flat transom (just 7 degrees of deadrise) does a nice job keeping things level and smooth, throwing water to the sides and keeping it off the foredeck and windshield. Smith pointed to the shallow shaft angle, just 7 or 8 degrees, as a reason for the M50’s out-of-the-hole performance and level attitude...
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