M/V Diesel Duck is the original model 41' aluminum long-range trawler with a 4'6" draft and 13' beam. Overall length is 45 feet. This special passage making fuel efficient yacht was designed by George Buehler and is a safe, stable, and easily driven sea boat for a couple or short-handed crew. She was built in aluminum by McNally Marine in Belleville, Ontario and commissioned in 2005. McNally is a highly respected commercial yard which has constructed tug boats, ferries, tour boats (including the "Maid of the Mist" in Niagara Falls), and yachts. McNally built the first three hulls of the Cape Horn Trawler series.
The name Diesel Duck was registered for this vessel in 1999 when the hull was started, however, construction was not complete until 2005 when she was launched.
With a cruising speed of 6.5 knots at 2200 rpm, M/V Diesel Duck consumes approximately 1.3 gal/hr with a cruising range of well over 3500 nautical miles. Max speed is approximately is 8.2 knots.
The original owners lived aboard and cruised for 8 years including a circumnavigation of South America (starting in Toronto, cruising the Caribbean, transiting the Panama Canal, and returning to the US East Coast). The current owner, only the 2nd, has cruised her on the Eastern Seaboard and Bahamas for the last 12 years and has continued her meticulous maintenance and upgrades.
M/V Diesel Duck is one of the featured vessels in the latest edition of "Voyaging Under Power" by Capt. Beebe and revised by Dennis Umstot.
A quote from George Buehler to the current owner in an email dated 2014: " You have one of the nicest of the DUCKS. I think it is a good size too. It's all a couple needs."
