Recent content by Seajet

I know the difference - the OP was about Contessa 28.

At 25' I'd say the Sadler every time - only proviso being if on the southern and probably Eastern English coasts one can barely give away a 25' deep fin keeler due to mooring / berthing costs.

I have a magazine ( YBW I think ) copy somewhere comparing the Contessa 28 with the Dufour 2800, let me know if you'd like scans PM'd.

Mk1FAU alarm system; when it shorts and goes phut you've got a leak.

There's a gap in the market for Musto's - cummerbunds with a built in helicopter rescue hook. :)

Despite my sign saying ' for parcels please ring bell ' the Hermes gremlin just left a parcel on our front door mat; it was stolen, fortunately ' only ' £40 worth - the driver photographed the parcel on the mat ' come and get contents for free ! ' which proves nothing, he could have put it down...

Hermes are a whole new league of dreadful - we have had fragile packages thrown over the high garden wall for us to find much later, or don't turn up at all; a lot can't read English so disregard the sign saying ' for parcels please ring bell ' - how a switched on outfit like Amazon uses them is...

" It sounds dreadful. I'm glad to be a hundred miles away. " That thought did occur to me too :)

Most boats I knew if over say 28' had the mast taken by lorry - the air draft along the route must be carefully checked. Our 38 metre barge only drew 1 metre but grounded when the farmers took too much water from the Burgundy Canal - it had a rudder with 33 turns lock to lock to give...

There's a big difference between technically efficient and aesthetically pleasing, ' the row away factor ' as one leaves the boat, heart bursting with pride, on a Sunday evening - and supposedly a good idea on someones' computer just to be different. In the case of the OP's proposed design I...

As JumbleDuck describes, with tiller or wheel hard to starboard.

I worked on a hotel barge on the canals around Burgundy for a season - we met a few small British yachts but I think drawing 1.6 metres would be right on the edge, pushing ones' luck. Also what is the air draft, there are some low bridges - is he going to have the mast taken off and taken by...

I read that having paddlewheels able to go in opposite directions, as seems intuitive for turning, was in fact lethal causing dangerous heeling - after a fatal accident, on the Thames I think - such setups were banned for commercial vessels. When I first started Solent sailing in the early 70's...

Looks like a W Storm 33 to me ?

Well this one needed boring out hollow and filling with helium to be light in that way !