"jlrogers±³©" wrote
Former sailboat owners tell why they switched to powerboats and how much
they enjoy them.
http://www.motorboating.com/articleH...?ID=1000065935
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Well, I enjoy our powerboat quite a lot, but it's not like the ones in
that magazine article.


"mmc" wrote:
I know it's true, a motor boating magaizine told me so!
I know a few people that made the swap and their reasons were that they had
gotten too old for the activities required to sail. Their words not mine.

It's not necessarily a question of being "too old," it's a question of
what you want to do versus what the boat(s) in question are capable
of. The main thing that motorboats do better is cover more area in a
given period of time.... they go faster (duh). Even a slow trawler
like ours runs at 7 knots easily & comfortably... and thru 4' deep
water, more importantly from our point of view... and if you ever make
a passage like that in a 36' cruising sailboat, you brag about it for
the rest of your life. But most powerboaters want to go significantly
faster than that,even. So if you want to get to Point X within Time Y,
power makes a lot more sense than sail.

If you love to sail, then a powerboat is not what you want. That's why
I have both!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King