Jere Lull writes:

Ante Topic Mimara wrote:


I would like to find a boat that is between 25 and 40
feet in length, that has an aft cabin layout. If the
kind persons in this group could make suggestions and
recommendations for such a craft, I would appreciate it.

I don't believe you'll easily find an aft cabin boat in
that price range that is sailaway or even near. At $10k,
you're looking for an old boat under about 32' (like our
Xan, below). Few aft "cabins" were made in that size range
then. Most marketed as cabins were hardly expanded
quarterberths. The newer boats are considerably more
expensive, but not much better.

You are using terms with which I am not familiar. Things
like "quarterberth", "cockpit", "sailaway" and the like.

This is why I ask in a message group such as this, but I
do not expect that I would get so much lingo and jargon
thrown my way without explanation. I have found out that
a boat I have seen which sold out of Florida which has a
cabin aft, was a Carver model, 29 feet in length, and did
sell for about $7,500.00. This is my size, price, and type
boat. If not a cabin at the aft, then something along the
same style of boat.

We found one center cockpit ketch with a cramped aft
cabin -- and no real "V" or cabin for other than leprechhans
(sp?). Thus, it had only one real berth, and that was for
two singles because the only walkway was between the berths.
Cost was in the right range, but we'd have had to spend about
that much more before we hit the water, assuming we'd want
to sleep separately or make.

Make with what? LOL! I see you have a good sense of humor as
do others! It is only the wife and myself who will use this
boat, and it would be used to live upon during weekends and
such. I see berths at bow of boat as not comfortable, due to
V sleeping style arrangement. How does one cuddle with open
space underneath in middle of V? This seems to not be very
comfortable to me.

Personally, I find most boats with aft cabins uncomfortable.
Ventilation and headspace are usually poor.

If one were to live for lengths of time, yes, but a boat is
more similar to a camper on wheels, is it not? If I want to
live permanently on boat, I have seen a 44 foot double cabin
Pacemaker cruiser for under ten thousand of dollars. It may
need work, but is more like a house to me.

I don't know why you want the aft cabin. Most usually want
it to give privacy between two couples or the parents and kids.

No kids to speak of, unless you count those with four legs, such
as my kitties. They do sleep wherever they want. LOL!

That can be satisfied if the head is between the main cabin and
V and has two doors. That opens your search to quite a few more
boats.

As I say earlier, it is such that I really do not know enough of
what types of boats out there are for me, which is why I asked
for makes and models as suggestions to look at. To date, not one
of the reply posts made has done such. No matter. I will seek out
information wherever I can, and am ordering books from Amazon dot
com to suggest possibilities to me.

BTW, if you're looking for powerboats, we "run" with a number
of them, and they're often worse than sailboats in that
price/size range.

How could anyone sail a boat with sails on a river that is only
two hundreds of yards wide or less? I would not want a boat with
sails, if I were to go in the ocean out of the river either. How
does one move such a boat if there is no wind? Nevermind, this is
something about which I do not want or need to know. What I do
want is a boat with motors.

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