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A question about boat weight and displacement
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"Ante Topic Mimara" ] wrote in message news:KMYSIKXQ38080.3344444444@anonymous... Cindy Ballreich writes: Ante Topic Mimara wrote: I do not like to give this up, as it has been a life long dream for me to have a small boat like this, but I do not see how I can do with it what I wish to do. There are smaller boats that would probably meet your needs. I have looked at several web sites that sell boats, and I have not seen anything much under 27 or 28 feet that looks like what I was wanting. Almost all of these boats that are smaller than this, are all open, and do not have anything inside to sleep on, or eat, or have heads, or anything. If I could find something like this, I would be happy, but I have not. I have friends who used to own a 22 or 23' power boat with what was called a Cuddy Cabin. I believe they are quite common. This cabin was down below, forward of the cockpit, taking up perhaps the full forward half of the boat. It had a Vee shaped birth that slept two comfortably, a sink, and a dedicated space for a Port-a-potty (toilet). You could not stand in this cabin but there was sufficient headroom for those sitting on the beds or toilet. It had a door that closed it off from the cockpit for privacy and an over head opening hatch plus windows (ports) on either side. Their cockpit was open but they had a full canopy/dodger with side curtains that ran from the windshield to the stern with standing headroom inside. On nice evenings they would sleep in the cockpit on the main seats which folded down into beds. They did their cooking in the main cockpit on a bar-b-que. This all fit on a single axle trailer and they pulled with a Ford F150 (commonly called a 1/2 ton) pickup truck They kept the boat on its trailer in their driveway during the week and towed it where ever they wanted to go on evenings or weekends. The boat had an inboard/outboard drive arrangement with a V-6 engine. Would something like this be enough to get you started into boating? It doesn't meet all you expressed needs but is a good start perhaps. You could move up to a bigger boat as your experience and preferences develop. -- Ken Heaton & Anne Tobin Cape Breton Island, Canada kenheaton AT ess wye dee DOT eastlink DOT ca |
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