Hi folks.

I've been slowly researching sailboats for my future. I've raced
Lasers in my past, grew up on an Alberg 30 here in Toronto, and wish to
continue my love for boats.

I've been to boat shows, and looked at boat plans online.

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly? I'm looking for a rear cockpit sailboat that I could
take anywhere in the world. As well, I don't need it to sleep 40
people, as I'd rather exchange staterooms for storage or other
functionality.

Thanks to a Toronto boat show I'm fond of the Dufour 40 foot range.

http://www.dufouryachts.com

I look forward to your replies.

Cheers

BeeRich a écrit:

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly?

To my knowledge, this one :

http://webpublic.ac-dijon.fr/nievre/colas/clubm.htm
http://www.virtual-winds.com/modules...php?storyid=67


--
Peio

Hi,
I am cruising all year around singelhandedly in my 35ft Hallberg Rassy from
1976.
There is no problem to handle a significantly bigger boat completely on your
own.
I sailed singelhandedly from Finland in 2004, via Spain to Turkey in the
Mediterranean. Have not checked the distance, but it is thousends of sea
miles. Currently my boat is on Crete, Greece.
You need a bow thruster, remote control of the windlass, autopilot + wind
rudder, modern radar, fixed blade propeller, powerful engine. With thinking
ahead you can avoid most difficult situations. Never count on external help,
make sure you can handle everything on your own, including up and down from
the top of the mast.
Good luck,
Martin
--

"BeeRich" skrev i meddelandet
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Hi folks.

I've been slowly researching sailboats for my future. I've raced
Lasers in my past, grew up on an Alberg 30 here in Toronto, and wish to
continue my love for boats.

I've been to boat shows, and looked at boat plans online.

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly? I'm looking for a rear cockpit sailboat that I could
take anywhere in the world. As well, I don't need it to sleep 40
people, as I'd rather exchange staterooms for storage or other
functionality.

Thanks to a Toronto boat show I'm fond of the Dufour 40 foot range.

http://www.dufouryachts.com

I look forward to your replies.

Cheers

"BeeRich" wrote:

Hi folks.

I've been slowly researching sailboats for my future. I've raced
Lasers in my past, grew up on an Alberg 30 here in Toronto, and wish to
continue my love for boats.

I've been to boat shows, and looked at boat plans online.

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly? I'm looking for a rear cockpit sailboat that I could
take anywhere in the world. As well, I don't need it to sleep 40
people, as I'd rather exchange staterooms for storage or other
functionality.

Thanks to a Toronto boat show I'm fond of the Dufour 40 foot range.

http://www.dufouryachts.com

I look forward to your replies.

You can single hand almost any reasonably sized boat if it is equipped
properly so that you can work everything from the cockpit and if you
pick where and when you go. Especially if you mostly stay away from
docking situations. People single hand the boat we have which is BTW
not an aft cockpit. You can always convert 'staterooms' for storage.
We usually use the V-berth as a 'garage'.




grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html

I am not sure if it is Paul Allen or Larry Ellison but one of them has a
mega-yacht sailboat that, with all the remote controls, could potentially be
no-handed. Which ever it was claimed it could be sailed from his desk top.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
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"BeeRich" wrote:

Hi folks.

I've been slowly researching sailboats for my future. I've raced
Lasers in my past, grew up on an Alberg 30 here in Toronto, and wish to
continue my love for boats.

I've been to boat shows, and looked at boat plans online.

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly? I'm looking for a rear cockpit sailboat that I could
take anywhere in the world. As well, I don't need it to sleep 40
people, as I'd rather exchange staterooms for storage or other
functionality.

Thanks to a Toronto boat show I'm fond of the Dufour 40 foot range.

http://www.dufouryachts.com

I look forward to your replies.

You can single hand almost any reasonably sized boat if it is equipped
properly so that you can work everything from the cockpit and if you
pick where and when you go. Especially if you mostly stay away from
docking situations. People single hand the boat we have which is BTW
not an aft cockpit. You can always convert 'staterooms' for storage.
We usually use the V-berth as a 'garage'.




grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html

BeeRich wrote:
Hi folks.

I've been slowly researching sailboats for my future. I've raced
Lasers in my past, grew up on an Alberg 30 here in Toronto, and wish
to continue my love for boats.

I've been to boat shows, and looked at boat plans online.

Regardless of price, what is the largest sailboat that one can handle
singlehandedly? I'm looking for a rear cockpit sailboat that I could
take anywhere in the world. As well, I don't need it to sleep 40
people, as I'd rather exchange staterooms for storage or other
functionality.

Thanks to a Toronto boat show I'm fond of the Dufour 40 foot range.

http://www.dufouryachts.com

I look forward to your replies.

Cheers

Vendredi Treize was sailed in the Transatlantic Single-Handed Race in 1972.
She was a 3-masted aluminium-hulled monster 128ft LOA. She finished second,
although by far the fastest boat in the race, but she proved too much to
handle.

The Volvo Ocean 60's are sailed in the Vendee Globe, round-the-world
single-handed race. Extreme design with canting keel and water-ballasted
hull. 60 feet LOA.

The present Volvo Ocean Race is being contested by a further development of
the Ocean 60, the Ocean 70, and these yachts have consistently broken the
24-hour world record for distance noon-to-noon, which is reckoned will be
pushing close to 600 n.miles by the time the race ends. These are of course
fully-crewed yachts of extreme design, 70ft long. What's the betting that
some madman will re-equip one for Round-The-World sailing within the next 2
years?


Dennis.

Wow a bow thruster for a 35 foot boat? Or do you mean a larger boat?
Why the fixed prop? is 40 horsepower considered a powerful engine for
a 40 footer?

Cheers

Hi Rosalie. I would suspect that docking would be a regular event.
From my research I'm guessing 50 feet max. I would eventually like to
travel the world, and make some good time to wherever I am travelling.
A circumnavigation would be the best.

Cheers

I follow the Vendee Globe, and that's a bit different. They are
designed with the race in mind, knowing there's one person in the boat.
I won't have that luxury. I also don't want to circumnavigate
completely in 110 days. Extreme is quite the description, but exact.

I'm also following the VOR, but they take too long between legs. I'd
like to be in Australia right now.

So, a 45 / 50 foot sailboat could very well do the job. That's what
I'm looking for. I'll just have to ask if it's designed to be fully
controlled singlehandedly.

Cheers

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
I am not sure if it is Paul Allen or Larry Ellison but one of them has a
mega-yacht sailboat that, with all the remote controls, could potentially be
no-handed. Which ever it was claimed it could be sailed from his desk top.



Perfect boat for Skipper.
From his comfy armchair in Derby, Kansas, he could explore the entire
west coast..... and the Sea of Cortez.