Don't you think that the discomfort has more to do with the size of
the boat than the design?
Or was it leaking as well, even if it wasn't it must have been wet?
Was it an old-fashioned wood open cockpit folkboat?

Peter S/Y Anicula


tho
"Frank Maier" skrev i en meddelelse
om...
DSK wrote...
JAXAshby wrote:
...snip...
FWIW dougie, a couple of years ago a 75 year old man crossed the
North Atlantic
east to west in a Folkboat. Know anyone at all -- let alone one
75 years --
who has crossed the NA in a Hunter 19 in either direction?

Crossing oceans is not the only way to evaluate a cruising boat.
When was the last
time a Folkboat... or your boat... spent a 3 day weekend cruising
comfortably in
pleasant sailing waters 275 miles away from it's home slip? Or a
weeks vacation
over 600 miles away?
...snip...
Wait, look at me trying to talk sense to Jax. Phooey.

Doug,

This last point is, of course, your essential error. grin

But to address the issue, unlike Jax's imaginary friend who sails
upwind under bare poles and motors for months on a gallon of gas, I
have crossed the Atlantic on a Folkboat clone. I recommend against
it.

Frank