We have a pilot house cutter and love it for
offshore. That's why we bought it. You can check it
out at www.panoceanic.net

Doug
s/v Callista

"rhys" wrote in message
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Starting a new thread because "Best bluewater 34 footer" is getting
insanely off-topic:

Frank Maier said:

Another of my prejudices is that I don't wanna have a pilothouse out
on the deep blue; so, I'd be looking for a non-pilothouse version.

Why is that? Me, I've always thought the advantages of a pilothouse,
or at least a hard dodger/bimini, were substantial if it was
well-integrated into the rest of the deck and the controls were
logical. I like the idea of hard points for rails, handgrips, places
to lash the boom, etc. That doesn't necessarily mean a pilot house,
but it does mean more than the typical enclosed bimini/dodger on light
steel tubing.

R.