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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:29:22 -0400, Jonathan
wrote: All kinds of people, all kinds of boats and materials. The common denominator? They all managed to take in the docklines and go...... That in sum is the crucial point. I have my preferences, but if time passes and all I can afford is something merely adequate, I won't hesitate. R. |
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rhys wrote: So that means a few things: I want a cutter-rigged ketch. I want steel, stable and Perkins or similar "big iron" diesel. I want a pilothouse or a hard dodger, and preferably center cockpit. In his "Coastwise and Offshore Cruising Wrinkles", Tom Colvin writes: "The supreme robber baron, vandal, thief, pirate, is found aboard too often, threatening the safety of a proper sea going vessel: the cockpit. It has no place at sea." |
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If you look at the boats that ACTUALLY TRAVEL THE WORLD, as opposed to
those found in crowded Carribean anchorages, you will find a substantial portion of them are metal, usually steel, but frequently aluminum. no, you will not find "substantial portion" to be metal. The vast, vast, vast majority of them are fiberglass. You will find a higher % of them to be metal than compared to the general boat population, but by no means a "substantial portion". The real advantage of a metal boat is that it is cheeeep on the used market. |
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From this, you can draw a couple of obsevations, not conclusions:
one can not *draw* an observation. |
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ACTUALLY PASSAGEMAKING,
perhaps 30 to 40 per cent will be metal or wood I seem to recall the recorded data shows of boats ACTUALLY PASSAGEMAKING about 2% - 5% or so will be metal, and a % or so wood. Far and away fiberglass is most common if for no other reason than fiberglass boats are far and away the most common. of course, for a given strength boat, a fiberglass boat will weigh less, carry more stores, be less top heavy, and carry less sails to go faster, but what the hey. |
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whatever causes an owner to choose metal,
irrational fear of dying is the usual reason. looking for a bargain in a used boat is another. |
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But a lot of the
fibreglass boats sold new today I wouldn't take into a 40 knot wind, if you are afraid to take a Tayana 37 into a 40 knot wind *you* are a moral reprobate for even thinking of going offshore in any boat. you are not qualified. emotionally. get a motorhome. |
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JAXAshby wrote: But a lot of the fibreglass boats sold new today I wouldn't take into a 40 knot wind, if you are afraid to take a Tayana 37 into a 40 knot wind *you* are a moral reprobate for even thinking of going offshore in any boat. you are not qualified. emotionally. get a motorhome. What are the 'emotional qualifications'? |
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to be unfraid of one's skills to handle a fine quality boat in rather easy
winds. But a lot of the fibreglass boats sold new today I wouldn't take into a 40 knot wind, if you are afraid to take a Tayana 37 into a 40 knot wind *you* are a moral reprobate for even thinking of going offshore in any boat. you are not qualified. emotionally. get a motorhome. What are the 'emotional qualifications'? |
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