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(Parallax) wrote in message . com...
All this makes me wonder, are small boats more fun than big boats?
Should my next Big boat be a smaller trailerable big boat? Is the old
saying about boats being used in an amount inversely proportional to
their size true? What do y'all think?

I don't think its the size; I think, for a boat in a slip, it is the
distance from your doorstep to the boat. For a trailerable, its the
distance from home to the water you want to sail. You likely use the
12ft'ers like I use my kayak, I can drag it with me anywhere, put in
anywhere there is a bank wide enough to step on, and I can be underway
in about 15 minutes. My 18ft trailerable sailboat, on the other
hand, requires towing to a ramp, at least 30 minutes of setup time,
and another 30 minutes to launch, park the car, yada yada; so its not
trivial.

The biggest restriction I think hangs on the fact that while one is
attached to a shore job, making a 10 day sail is limited to paid
vacation days, and thats the reason I don't own a big (32ft+ is big to
me) boat. Once seperated from the shore job, you can leave whenever,
and as long as you've got some frugal bones in you, you can enjoy
sailing serious distances and not eat to much into your reserve funds.
(Long distance to me would be Galveston to the Keys.)