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Boat shopping - but got off course.
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Boat shopping - but got off course.
Yesterday I was looking at a 36' Cape Dory on Yachtworld, but the thing has a PHRF of 180. The Passport has a PHRF of 140 and most people said that it was a slug. Now I'm confused. Can someone help a plastic stinkpotter like me? What does PHRF stand for? thanks |
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Boat shopping - but got off course.
Richard Malcolm wrote:
Yesterday I was looking at a 36' Cape Dory on Yachtworld, but the thing has a PHRF of 180. The Passport has a PHRF of 140 and most people said that it was a slug. Now I'm confused. Can someone help a plastic stinkpotter like me? What does PHRF stand for? thanks Performance Handicap Racing Fleet. It is the most commonly used handicapping method for club racing. It is based on boat performance on windward-leeward courses. The lower the number, the faster the boat. The Schock 35 on which I crew has a PHRF of 72. A slug compared to what? Unless you are going to race the boat, I suggest that you ignore the PHRF rating. |
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Boat shopping - but got off course.
Norm:
Get ready for a lot of laughs, jeers, and hee-haws. I have a Westsail 32 that will soon be on the market. It'll get you anywhere you want to go, comfortably, safely....and slowly. Skipper Dick "Norm" wrote in message ... Well I spent last weekend down in Seattle - boat shopping. Initially my wife and I were looking at boats between 36 and 38' but somehow we ended up in the 40+ boats and of course we fell in love with one. After we got home, we figured out how much the thing was going to set us back including maintenance, needed upgrades, insurance and moorage and decided against it. The boat was a beautiful Passport 40 but it was old (1980) and needed a lot of work (wood decks to boot). The work doesn't bother me as much as the expense in upgrades. Boat was $120K+ and then add a bunch of other stuff on top just to get it ready to go to Alaska (+$10k) and we were just out of our affordability range. Now we're trying to get refocused and once again looking for a well built sailboat in the 35-38' range that is capable of offshore passages, performs fairly well (don't really want a slug) & something that isn't so old that everything needs to be replaced before cruising. We can put down $60k and still have another $10k for extras and getting it back up to Alaska. I don't mind taking out a little loan if the price is up around 80$ for the boat, but I really don't want to have to borrow so much that I'm tied to the dock and a job paying the thing off. Yesterday I was looking at a 36' Cape Dory on Yachtworld, but the thing has a PHRF of 180. The Passport has a PHRF of 140 and most people said that it was a slug. Now I'm confused. Any recommendations on what boats to focus on? |
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