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What's your (entirely subjective) Favorite Offshore Cruising boatfrom 35 to 45'?
On Dec 22, 4:10 am, kupono wrote:
I'm looking to compile a list of favorite cruising boats based upon your completely subjective opinions. Eddy and Duff's criteria might be a useful guide, but don't feel constrained by it. 1. She must be easy to handle. 2. She must be comfortable. 3. She must be seaworthy. 4. She must be fast. 5. She must be beautiful. Please qualify your choices with fully founded, and no doubt, highly subjective arguments based on well thought out personal opinion (and hopefully experience). Let the opionions fly. 1. how much u want to spend, the worlds largest freighter is handled by 13 men only, most of them for cleaning and cooking, automatisation is the world, it costs 2. how old are u? a mans age in feet boat length is an old rule of thumb, still comfort levels are something personal, fakirs have a different lifestyle compared to a princess on a pea. 3. some swear on iron or lead ducks, a hole and they sink, but if they return after a capsize, they are mostly upright, I believe in Catamarans, they might end up upside down, and this is how the are sometimes found, sunken monohulls are mostly not found any more. Both varieties have seaworthy and less seaworthy examples 4. well, then look into a modern trimaran and do not expect any comfort, not even paint on the carbon hull. maybe a bucket as toilet. I went for a balsa/honeycomb cat, 43' 8800lb plus payload 1000sqft upwind sail 5. well, if all women like the same guy, what will all others do? for some a tank is beautiful, some love soft lines, some baroque ones ;-) my last cat was a shangri-la-nova 47', German designer Nissen with help of a guy (Pieske) cruising around the world for 15 years, homebuilt but so beautiful someone forced me to sell, even when it was ten years old, better he would have stolen it, then the insurance would have paid more. **** happens. Now after ten years owning a cat I know what I liked, basically the same, it was a perfect design, just a little heavy, but rock solid. This one is smaller, much lighter, just fits like a tight jeans, 43' Schionning design. for me the Australians have some of the best cat designers when it comes to pleasing lines (Grainger, Lidgaard, Spirited Design), there might be other good designers too, but I did not like how the yachts look like. You write CRUISING, means you spend most of the time at anchorages, occasionally a passage, living on board. Nothing beats a well designed Catamaran for that. no rolling, no gimbaled stove, at anchor peaceful, yes, uphill sometimes noisy, but that is no long fun on a mono either, but on a cat you still cook when on a mono you secure everything. And in a marine you live first floor and not in the basement. My opinion.... |
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What's your (entirely subjective) Favorite Offshore Cruising boatfrom 35 to 45'?
On Dec 21, 10:20 pm, izibizi wrote:
... This one is smaller, much lighter, just fits like a tight jeans, 43' Schionning design. for me the Australians have some of the best cat designers when it comes to pleasing lines (Grainger, Lidgaard, Spirited Design), there might be other good designers too, but I did not like how the yachts look like. ... Schionning's boats are lovely. I got to walk around "Pat's Cat" in Vanuatu. A sweet boat, but as you say a tight fit. I think she was 48' as built (extended for inboards) and she had less room inside than my Atlantic 42 (which is small by cruising cat standards). I'm was raised on the East coast and like a traditional sheer line. The reverse sheer with large radius is light and can be lovely but it can also be wet. I think Choi, Newick and White, just to name my favorates, have drawn some beautiful multis "up over", as it where. -- Tom. |
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What's your (entirely subjective) Favorite Offshore Cruising boatfrom 35 to 45'?
On Dec 22, 12:20*am, izibizi wrote:
On Dec 22, 4:10 am, kupono wrote: I'm looking to compile a list of favorite cruising boats based upon your completely subjective opinions. Eddy and Duff's criteria might be a useful guide, but don't feel constrained *by it. * * 1. She must be easy to handle. * * 2. She must be comfortable. * * 3. She must be seaworthy. * * 4. She must be fast. * * 5. She must be beautiful. Please qualify your choices with fully founded, and no doubt, highly subjective arguments based on well thought out personal opinion (and hopefully experience). Let the opionions fly. 1. how much u want to spend, the worlds largest freighter is handled by 13 men only, most of them for cleaning and cooking, automatisation is the world, it costs 2. how old are u? a mans age in feet boat length is an old rule of thumb, still comfort levels are something personal, fakirs have a different lifestyle compared to a princess on a pea. 3. some swear on iron or lead ducks, a hole and they sink, but if they return after a capsize, they are mostly upright, I believe in Catamarans, they might end up upside down, and this is how the are sometimes found, sunken monohulls are mostly not found any more. Both varieties have seaworthy and less seaworthy examples 4. well, then look into a modern trimaran and do not expect any comfort, not even paint on the carbon hull. maybe a bucket as toilet. I went for a balsa/honeycomb cat, 43' 8800lb plus payload 1000sqft upwind sail 5. well, if all women like the same guy, what will all others do? for some a tank is beautiful, some love soft lines, some baroque ones ;-) my last cat was a shangri-la-nova 47', German designer Nissen with help of a guy (Pieske) cruising around the world for 15 years, homebuilt but so beautiful someone forced me to sell, even when it was ten years old, better he would have stolen it, then the insurance would have paid more. **** happens. Now after ten years owning a cat I know what I liked, basically the same, it was a perfect design, just a little heavy, but rock solid. This one is smaller, much lighter, just fits like a tight jeans, 43' Schionning design. for me the Australians have some of the best cat designers when it comes to pleasing lines (Grainger, Lidgaard, Spirited Design), there might be other good designers too, but I did not like how the yachts look like. You write CRUISING, means you spend most of the time at anchorages, occasionally a passage, living on board. Nothing beats a well designed Catamaran for that. no rolling, no gimbaled stove, at anchor peaceful, yes, uphill sometimes noisy, but that is no long fun on a mono either, but on a cat you still cook when on a mono you secure everything. And in a marine you live first floor and not in the basement. My opinion.... This thread is about you, not me. I want your opinions. Mine suck. I couldn't afford a boat the length of my age anyway. I do like multi- hulls though. |
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