Fantasy boat

[PabloPicasso]

If you were to choose a new boat for yourself, and your sort of sailing, what would you get and why?

For this fantasy lets only consider brand new boats, just for fun.

 

[Mark-1]

OVNI 370.

I can stuff it on a beach and do all the rock dodging I crave, but still cover miles. Plus hopefully it can be repaired by a panel beater.

Obvs the fantasy boat will be accompanied by a fantasy back up team in a support boat to free up the keel every time it gets jammed.

 

[ylop]

Twin keeled Sirius DS40 so I can park next to Mark and laugh at him waiting for the back up team to fix his keel ;-)

 

[Stemar]

If I were to make a shortlist, Sirius would be the first name I'd write down, but at 75, and starting to feel my age, I'd also consider going to the dark side - A 35-40' trawler yacht, maybe. I really don't like the steam iron shaped boats.

 

[dunedin]

Xc 47 |

 

[Mark-1]

I really don't like the steam iron shaped boats.

Amen. I've seen them in marinas, catamaran wide, and thought they were dreadful; impractically wide yet also full of steering wheel.

Then the other week I had a day on a Jeanneau 410 and it was every bit as awful as I expected. I can tolerate twin rudders if it allows you to take to the ground, otherwise.... Nah.

Mind you, I can imagine it eating miles on a reach which is perhaps what most non-purist cruisers (like me) aim to do.

 

[sigma38dave]

Contessa 32

 

[Boathook]

40 foot Dragonfly ! Folded fits into a marina berth when I wish to visit.

Would be the cruising version with all the extras.

 

[potentillaCO32]

As sigma38dave has bought this year's production run of new contessa 32s I will go for a new Seascape 27.

 

[seanav]

Not Greedy ...A Sirius 35DS would do , doesn't need to be a 40DS .........

 

[westernman]

As sigma38dave has bought this year's production run of new contessa 32s I will go for a new Seascape 27.

Seriously thinking about a new Beneteau First 30.|

Only down side is the keel does not lift so with 2m draft you need to anchor a fair way off the beach.
But then you are not allowed within 300m of the beach anyway, so it probably would not be that useful - and I would be worried about falling over in a bit of wind and swell like the Bayesian.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

40 foot Dragonfly ! Folded fits into a marina berth when I wish to visit.

Would be the cruising version with all the extras.

My ambitions stretch only to the 32. But mine would be the big rig, big float Evolution. For just 2 of us it would be luxurious. And very very fast. That is, maybe as much as 10% quicker than ours.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

An Andersen 22

 

[14K478]

I’ve got my fantasy boat. Not in current production, though. My daydreams revolve around the fantasy refit with press button everything!

Oh well…

Put me down for a Bowman 45.

 

[johnalison]

Once an HR, always an HR for me. There was a photo of a wonderful new HR catamaran on the HROA page on April 1st that was oddly tempting.

 

[SaltyC]

Keep dreaming of a Rustler42, not a radical new 'flat iron' shape, but not old long keel.
A compromise with lots of rocker, nice motion at sea and reasonable performance.

 

[SaltyC]

Once an HR, always an HR for me. There was a photo of a wonderful new HR catamaran on the HROA page on April 1st that was oddly tempting.

John, afraid I'm not too keen on new models following the quest for more volume and performance, would consider defecting - IF I change.
A few years ago walking along the Dan Bran pontoon, a 34 - classic, a 342 a modern take and OK, then a 340, it looked like a 342 that had been inflated with an air line, No thx.

 

[westhinder]

Since we are in fantasy land, and I am more a cruising type than a speed junkie, a Bestevaer 45 would do me nicely. Aluminium build and deck saloon.
45 S/Y - Bestevaer

 

[LittleSister]

This scenario is so far removed from my reality that I have no idea what's on the market, but given it's limited to brand new boats and fantasy, I'll go for commissioning a custom design and build!

PARAMETERS:
LOA - About 32 foot - enough room for comfort, easy handling, and sneaking into places/berths/canals etc. denied to those with boats roomier than my house.
Rig - I've always had a soft spot for the look of a yawl (I've neither had nor sailed one). On the other hand, in view of my advancing years (and the time that it will take to design and build will add more!) maybe a scaled up Hunter Liberty type rig (una rig, but with two masts) could be the thing? Why stop at two, maybe a three-master for yacht club bragging rights, sorry, I mean to break down the sail plan into manageable parts.
Keel(s) - Bilge, or lifting fin with bilge stubs, for taking the ground and sneaking around in shoals. I rather liked the notion, too, of lifting twin fins, folding up into berth fronts and keeping the centre of the inside of the boat clear. David Cannell designed, and North Sea Craft IIRC built, late 70s?, a trailer sailer c20ft (forgotten name) with such, though it didn't sell at all well (probably too expensive to compete) so rarely seen, and do I recall a modern French? Aluminium? boat about 30' to 40' with something similar?
Type/layout - I am still rather smitten with the LM concept of a small wheelhouse, and being able to steer from either inside the wheelhouse by wheel, or by tiller from the cockpit, not to mention being able to reach the kettle from the wheelhouse helmsman's seat, which please me no endf In fact, now I come to think of it, maybe I'll just get someone to find and dust off LMs 1980s plans for the LM32, and build me a new one of those, bilge keel version!

And now I'm thinking of how much I like LMs' canoe sterns, too. Oh yes, and LMs Scandi-vibe interiors and their multitude of clever little design features. In fact, pretty much what I've got now, except a bit bigger, more modern styling and hull/keel shape, and new!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

For a proper reply

Hylas / Outbound 56
Garcia 50 or 60 Expedition
Boreal 55 OC
H R 48 Mk2

Probably in that order