Written like a man green with envy.

"Cut the Mustard" is a well-built, medium-heavy construction cruiser.
Last haulout I had the Travelift operator show me the scale.

The readout? 8,500 pounds. This is loaded and in cruising mode with
tanks full and supplies for a couple months. No cork she. She is relatively
narrow (by today's standards at 8.5 feet beam) and she is fast and stable
in a seaway. She sails herself to weather with a bungee on the tiller weather
side without excessive heel. Sweet is the word.

CN


"Recobee" wrote in message ...
"Cut the Mustard" A blue water cruiser, I think not. A fine little yacht for
the trades, the Caribbean? What sort of fool is this man?

I highly doubt that Neal has been much beyond the safety of the mangroves. Can
you imagine that cork trying to make a passage to Bermuda? Down Route 66?
Never happen. That boat wouldn't last two days in the trades. Just picture
his bimini and Hong Kong sails split and fluttering like prayer clothes in the
breeze. His anchors dislodged and streaming aft. All while Neal is sitting in
the cockpit, outboard in his lap, head over the side, and his toy boat is
sliding sideways down a trade wind sea leaving a chum line of half digested
Spam gurgling in its wake.

Could he go by way of the Bahamas? Perhaps. On a flat-ass calm summer's day,
with plenty of fuel, he might be able to motor that yellow turd over with the
rest of the Buba fleet of bass boats and jet ski's. But down island? The only
way Neal'd make it to chicken harbor would be by airplane! Even if by some
miracle he did make it, I can't imagine that mangrove cruiser ever getting any
farther. He has neither the skills nor the vessel to continue. Either he is
as foolish as he sounds, or he has some kind of death wish. Then again, maybe
he is relying on the adage that God looks after fools and their…….