Gerry
Well-Known Member
After 13 years sailing our Bowman 40 we are thinking of changing boat. We have been very happy with the one we have, she has looked after us extremely well but as our experience has grown and our desires have changed we think this may be time for a change.
We are driven by our desire to attempt more high latitude sailing and our desire for complete self-sufficiency. Whilst we have achieved a lot on the Bowman we recognise that the changes we would need to make for the future will be expensive, invasive and probably compromise any resale value. They would also, inevitably, involve a number of substantial compromises.
We are also aging and facing the fact that our physical abilities will be eroded over the coming decades. Ideally we are looking for a boat that will take us to high latitudes for the next ten years or so and then enable us to continue living aboard well into our dotage and cruise inland waterways as well as coasts.....
We are right at the beginning of this thought process, and there certainly is no guarantee that we will indeed change at the end of the process-better the boat you know and all that!
I am quite taken by the Wylo 35.5, particularly the new build offered by voyage on the IOW, don't want to build our own though. Like the fact that we could specify the interior. What I am questioning is the gaff rig, no experience but a belief that a fair set of muscles are required for this. Considering a junk rig too.
So any thoughts? Ideas?
We are looking for simplicity without compromising comfort. Minimum electronics, around 35-40feet and probably steel construction.
We are driven by our desire to attempt more high latitude sailing and our desire for complete self-sufficiency. Whilst we have achieved a lot on the Bowman we recognise that the changes we would need to make for the future will be expensive, invasive and probably compromise any resale value. They would also, inevitably, involve a number of substantial compromises.
We are also aging and facing the fact that our physical abilities will be eroded over the coming decades. Ideally we are looking for a boat that will take us to high latitudes for the next ten years or so and then enable us to continue living aboard well into our dotage and cruise inland waterways as well as coasts.....
We are right at the beginning of this thought process, and there certainly is no guarantee that we will indeed change at the end of the process-better the boat you know and all that!
I am quite taken by the Wylo 35.5, particularly the new build offered by voyage on the IOW, don't want to build our own though. Like the fact that we could specify the interior. What I am questioning is the gaff rig, no experience but a belief that a fair set of muscles are required for this. Considering a junk rig too.
So any thoughts? Ideas?
We are looking for simplicity without compromising comfort. Minimum electronics, around 35-40feet and probably steel construction.
