catamaran still count as a small boat??
I'm heading out tommorow to bid on one at an auction of damaged boats - It's all screwed up and the rig is gone but I just happen to know someone that knows how to fix all that stuff. The biggest trick is going to be getting it home so I can get it all fixxed up.
nope, you'll have to move on to "big boats short distance" site...yep the ol' short sail group... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Yep, sorry Teach, but we'll be forced to kick you out.
Unless you sail it *sideways*.
;D
Where's it at, and where will you be taking it to?
No the extra 2 feet will get you voted off of the island LOL. West Sail 32 is not small.
The boat is on the MS Gulf - IF I get it, I'll bring it home and start the LONG repair process. Then the refit begins- I know the mast,boom and standing will be close to 6000.00 unless I can find it used. Then we get to add the sails and all the other stuff. Unless someone just runs the price up it should cost me more to get it home than buy the boat. I know what I think it should go for and the current value of one in good shape SO all I have to do is guesstimate the repair and refit cost and see how the math werks out. Worst case deal I drive 5hrs ea way and spend a nite in a motel to come home with out a boat
not only that you will need an extra wide slip
I'm pretty lucky there - I own my mooring so no rent - at least as long as I have it here on the lake. I'm sure that I'll sail it here at least one summer after its fixxed - that is IF I get it. I'm about to head out for the auction and there are a few other boats I plan to bid on as well, one is a little Flats boat and the other is a NICE RIB
good luck on the bidding...if you can bid $50 on a 24-30'er for me ..lol.
Bill
Well I now own a Gemini 3200 - its going to cost me more to get it home than I paid for it and I have a LOT of work ahead of me to get where it will float again
congrates there Captain.
did you see any 25-30'ers go for less then a grand?
bill
Caongrats teach, send pictures
There were several boats that went WAY below what they should have gone for - I almost bought three more but lack of storage space stopped me. I may have been better off buying the others instead of the 32ft cat
a short list from memory a 30ft racer went for 1250.00 needing only mast and sails and VERY minor repairs 54ft Irwin for 30,000 several 25-30 boats under 3000.00
I think the biggest buy was a 80ft Custom Hatteras (Its been stretched as Hatteras only builds upto 67ft) went for a smooth Half Mil
I wonder how many will show up on boat trader .com as projects..becouse the new owner got in over his/her head?
Bill
I am welcome here with a Pearson 365 ? I know I'm over the 30' mark, but I sure like the way yall think.
It's the mindset that is more important than the boat size as far as I can see.
My boat is wider than many of the boats on here are long... since it has a beam of 18'. :)
Welcome to sailfar.net.
Where do you sail out of? What is the name of your boat?? There are a couple others with boats over the 30' mark here... mine's only 28' LOA, but it is a trimaran... so it is very wide.
Welcome aboard, Randy, and Grog! to ya'... :)
Dan's right - it's more of a mindset, than an actual boat-size matter. People on smaller boats are more likely to share the sailFar kind of thinking, is all. :)
Of choice, and sometimes of course, out of necessity! ;D
Anyway - glad to have you here, those 365's are nice boats. :) Jump on in!
Welcome Randy! I also sail (and live) on a boat longer than the 30' mark. The denizens here at SailFar have always made me feel very welcome.
Hello everyone we (marty}and i have a 37 ft tartan and both of us injoy sailfar and have the bumper sticker to prove it.
Welcome aboard Sailorflo. :) What waters do you sail??
Hiya, Flo!
Flo lives aboard here in my marina, and prior to getting their big boat ;), he had much smaller vessels. I'll leave it to him to tell you the details. ;D
In Issue #49 of Small Craft Advisor, Sven Yrvind writes:
QuoteAt sea it's different...If a small boat sailor leaves the coast he is deemed mad. If he successfully returns to land after having crossed an ocean, he is hailed as a hero. But what he has done is not madness or heroism, because oceans are regions of wilderness, stunningly beautiful in their ever-changing magnificence. To roam them in a small, safe, environmentally friendly boat, propelled by wind and muscle-power is healthy and mentally enriching.
I must stress the importance of safety because the sea is ruthless in its fury. The small boat, far out to sea, has no place to hide. Alone, without help, it must be able to survive storms of the worst kind.
Some things are inherently dangerous. Fires, electricity, and cars can hurt you, but we have not done away with them. We've made them safer and developed better ways to handle them. Oceangoing production boats are big not because bigness makes them safe, but because there is more money in big than in small boats, and much money spent gives the owners status.
He is building a custom 16' gaff rigged cat-schooner. He is planning on sailing her from Bodo, Norway, north of the Artic Circle, non-stop via Cape Horn to Valdivia, Chile. His article has some excellent ideas with regards to stowage, boat design and ventilation that I think many on this site might like. His website (http://www.yrvind.com/) is one that most of you might find interesting.
Kewl!!
And amazingly enough, I've BEEN to Bodo , Norway.
Flew in from Iceland to deliver a new engine to one of the "barrier" early warning planes that had been forced down there.
I have a model viking ship sitting in my china cabinet I got from that trip. Scratched in the bottom is "Bodo, Norway 3-4 Apr, 1963". Happens to been two months after Laura was born ;D
Bodo is above the Arctic Circle by the way.
Very interesting. I wish more of the site was in English. :) Interesting concepts, I like how he thinks (because it is so similar to my own, of course... ;) )
Capt k is right, I started sailing in lake mich,on a 25ft cal, my ex fixed the keel to make sure the boat never sailed again :-[ After that scary learning exp,Ive owned a Grampian 26, Catalina 27, Coronado 25 Dickerson 35 ketch, and now own a tartan 37 that was left to Marty and I after he passed on... We sail the boat as much as we can, Spend winters in South Carolina summers in North Carolina, this summer we are going to go to Maryland and were ever the wind blows
Very interesting man!
I am impressed by his dress at the royal presentation, unimposing, simple, comfortable. Much like Einstein would dress....
Sven is definetely a character. One of my early sources of inspiration in the 70-ies. He built his first boat in his mother's basement. The size of the door to the basement was the limiting factor re. boat size. He then sailed down to Cape Horn and passed it single-handed east to west. The boat is in Newport, Rhode Island IIRC, in a museum there. He has lots of interesting ideas and projects, even though he hasn't been sailing very much the latest 20 years. He did cross the atlantic this fall in a Vega with another swedish guy, around 20 y o.
Yes, I remember his articles in Cruising World back in the 70's. He couldn't get the hull out of the basement at first because of a bit of granite sticking out of the doorway. He had to push the hull back in and then take a hammer to the offending granite nib. He also lived on $1.00 a day (that's a 70's $1.00 by the way). It's a good thing he is short...I know I'd never get my big fat bum ::) plus supplies in a boat that small. And yes, he is a character and the world is a better place because of people like him. Let us all raise a tankard of grog (near beer for me) for Sven! ;)
Pappy Jack
I clearly recall a story about him testing his first Bris out in the north sea. He got capsized, with a broken mast and almost ALL of his provisions got soaked, making them in-eatable. All he had left were some cases of Swedish Meatballs, which he survived on for some 3 weeks ( or so) thil he made it back into port.
He claimed it was YEARS before he could face a Swedish Meatball again!! ;D ;D ;D