A hunk of junk, not even built anymore Coronado 27 is a modern marvel? the
marvel is that it still floats...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
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Your comments show you are old school in your attitudes and are incapable
of appreciating the superior qualities of a modern vessel with a
functional
design. I have commented below, throughout your post to show you the error
of your thinking.

"Capt. Mooron" babbled on and on . . .

"Capt. Neal®" wrote brilliantly:

One must wonder why, on a modern GRP vessel, anyone could abide such an
ugly and dysfunctional bowsprit.

The Bowsprit is not only functional but adds to the fine sheer of the
vessel.

Functional? Hardly. Sheer is comely but when carried to the extreme as
in the case of a long bowsprit it becomes as excessive as a silicone
implants
on a lovely woman with a 36D-sized breasts. Pray tell how loading heavy
anchors and chain on the end of a long bowsprit does anything other than
cause even a properly designed hull to hobby-horse in a seaway. Please
inform
me why, if a vessel has a properly designed keel with a properly placed
mast, it
is necessary to add a headsail way forward where it only serves to
unbalance
a proper center of effort/center of lateral resistance plan.

Modern boats should be designed to eliminate this anachronistic
appendage. It has no advantage other than increase the LOA of the vessel
making a small vessel seem larger in the advertising brochures.

I don't think you are thinking this out clearly..... It provides a
secure platform to change sail in foul weather, as well as being a
clutter free area to store & deploy ground tackle. The bowsprit is
stainless and teak... a massive and solid construction. From the end of
the bowsprit I can deploy a gennaker. It makes an excellent platform for
bow watch on a tricky entry. The ladies love to strip off and use it as a
dive platform.

A properly laid-out foredeck provides an even more secure platform to
change
headsails and a foredeck does not plunge up and down nearly as much as a
long
sprit in heavy seas. It is a common tale of woe often heard that sailors
are often
submerged while working at the end of a bowsprit. This is not the case on
the
foredeck proper. A proper vessel either has an anchor locker on the
foredeck or
short bow rollers on which to store anchors which minimize the hobby horse
effect.
As for deploying gennakers, I have no trouble doing so without the
anachronistic
sprit. As a place to stand the watch, it is no more advantageous than
having the
watch stand on the bow proper. As for a dive platform for women, I say if
your
women have time to fool around diving off the sprit then they are not
doing their
womanly duties below where any real captain would see they stay out of
sight,
out of mind and naked.

Form & Function.... that's all I ask... that's all I get.

Poor form and fiction more like . . .

CN