Anyone have thoughts on a 1970 Monk 55 for sale on Yachtworld?
I'm too young to retire by can't help thinking about cruising the
Carribbean.
How big is the cockpit?
I like the GB's but need a fishing size cockpit a la the Fleming 55.

1970 Monk? That would be a wooden yacht?

If one were waaaaay wealthy or a retired skilled cabinet maker or boat
wright that could be a great acquisition. I'd guess at least four eight
hour days per week to remain pretty much even on a 55 foot wooden yacht.

If I had the skills and a cooperative spouse I would be very tempted if I
could meet the price. Four days of agreeable work per week in return for
many hours of boating pleasure would work for me. Especially without any
nasty commute. Just tie my little Whaler 16 up to the stern and call it a
tender. That could be good... fish from the Whaler and return to the mother
ship.

Butch
"Jim and Becky" wrote in message
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Anyone have thoughts on a 1970 Monk 55 for sale on Yachtworld?
I'm too young to retire by can't help thinking about cruising the
Carribbean.
How big is the cockpit?
I like the GB's but need a fishing size cockpit a la the Fleming 55.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:32:57 -0500, "Jim and Becky"
wrote:

Anyone have thoughts on a 1970 Monk 55 for sale on Yachtworld?
I'm too young to retire by can't help thinking about cruising the
Carribbean.
How big is the cockpit?
I like the GB's but need a fishing size cockpit a la the Fleming 55.


Personaly I'd keep looking. She looks to me like she is set up for
daytime running only. Just guessing looking at the pic of the inside
helm. Might be what you want though.
Mark E. Williams

PS...I could be wrong but it looks like the instrument lights will
reflect off the front window and hit the helmsperson righ in the eyes.
Makes it easy to see the front window but hard to see through the
front window at night.

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:06:14 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

You aren't going to have that much more room in this cockpit than you
would on a GB of similar size. Wayne B has a GB 49 and from what I
remember when I was aboard last year, it has a decent sized stern
section for fishing - not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, but
good enough for one or two people.

There is definitely room to fish from the back deck of either a GB42
or 49. The deck is a little higher off the water than you'd really
like to be for boarding a fish, but you can always go down to the swim
platform for that. The smaller GBs like the 32 and 36 have the aft
deck lower to the water and would be better for fishing if you had to
pick one.

Back to larger boats, there a lot of older Hatts out there at half way
reasonable prices but the operating costs are high. There are both
the classic sport fishing models with cockpits that are nearly ideal,
and there are also the so called "Yachtfish" models that combine a
small fishing cockpit with motor yacht accomodations and styling.