How big are you

[jac]

Based on a comment in another thread, thought it would be informative to find out how big your present "most sailed" boat is.

 

[prv]

34 foot now, but was 24 foot until the end of last year.

Pete

 

[bitbaltic]

This is informative, as my contention in another thread that we are a community of sub- 30 footers was batted down instantly.

However I see that so far nearly 70% of those polled have boats under 36 foot, so maybe I was not that far off.

Will be interested to see the final results if we can get most folk to contribute.

Cheers

 

[Seajet]

My boat is 22' but there are a lot of good boats - and sailors - craft under 22 feet long; ask LustyD - 20' Vivacity - and Giblets, Leisure 17, both easily Atlantic capable and proven so.

I would point out that I have had larger boats but returned to the 22' by choice due to sailing characteristics, not finances !

Note ' Very Willing Griffin ', the story of David Blagden taking his Hunter 19 ' Willing Griffin ' in the 1972 OSTAR, boats a lot smaller have since made it across happily.

 

[DJE]

I think a Sadler 29 is right on the boundary between two of your groups - depending on whether I measure the rudder!
I put her in the smaller group!

 

[Twister_Ken]

boats a lot smaller have since made it across happily.

And so have boats a lot bigger. Conclusion?

 

[Bobc]

If you go back a generation and did the same poll, I reckon that the second option would be by far the biggest, with the 1st and 3rd behind.

So as I would suspect, the whole graph has jumped down one (so gone up in size by one category).

Whereas the "average popular" boat in the 1970s was a 26ft centaur, it's now a Bav between 32 and 36ft.

 

[[70521]]

Mine is 8.60m and I have no plans to cross an ocean in her; something a bit bigger for me before i do that.

 

[Gerry]

40 footer for us, we live aboard full-time and sometimes cross oceans! If we bought again I guess we'd choose something around the 35-38 foot,currently we have a sleeping cabin that rarely gets used so is 'dead' space. However we love the boat and wouldn't change now...

 

[Evadne]

I agree it is informative, but I would say that there is a lot more to size than LOA.
I have sailed the same 29 footer for years, and a few years ago we chartered a Moody 31 in Scotland. The difference was staggering. In most respects I would call it two or three times as big: room for four people comfortably instead of two, a humungous 50hp 3 cylinder engine, seperate cabins with beds in them, a toilet in its own compartment, a flight of stairs to get into the cabin from the cockpit and so on. She probably cost more like 5x the value of my boat as well, but she is only 2' longer overall, and probably no heavier.

 

[AndrewB]

Not into these American measurements, but in British, 11.5 metres.

 

[GrahamM376]

And so have boats a lot bigger. Conclusion?

Yes, according to several harbour masters and marina staff comments. Seems more people want to go for a larger "ready to sail" caravan as a first boat these days and have the money to buy one.

 

[GraemeS]

29' at the moment but probably be happy with a foot or two shorter to aid short handed sailing.

 

[laika]

Not into these American measurements, but in British, 11.5 metres.

We're 27 cubits. Ample room for a pair of badgers and a pair of civet cats come the next flood

 

[john_morris_uk]

This is informative, as my contention in another thread that we are a community of sub- 30 footers was batted down instantly.

However I see that so far nearly 70% of those polled have boats under 36 foot, so maybe I was not that far off.

Will be interested to see the final results if we can get most folk to contribute.

Cheers

Alternatively you can say (from the results so far) that around 75% of people who have answered the poll have boats OVER 29' long. What proportion of those fall into the 'Under 30' category is difficult to say.

As your original suggestion was that most people on here have sub 30' boats, I wonder why you didn't put 30' as one of the divides on your pole?
Its an interesting poll to watch though.

 

[Ripster]

Our LOA is about 37.5ft and is one of the AWB caravan type boats with lots of bells and whistles. It is our first saily boat (coming over from a Mobo) and seems ideal for novices and short-handed. Only two of us usually, so space is plentiful.

 

[Kelpie]

I agree it is informative, but I would say that there is a lot more to size than LOA.
I have sailed the same 29 footer for years, and a few years ago we chartered a Moody 31 in Scotland. The difference was staggering. In most respects I would call it two or three times as big: room for four people comfortably instead of two, a humungous 50hp 3 cylinder engine, seperate cabins with beds in them, a toilet in its own compartment, a flight of stairs to get into the cabin from the cockpit and so on. She probably cost more like 5x the value of my boat as well, but she is only 2' longer overall, and probably no heavier.

This is a very good point.
How about a poll using Thames tonnage??

 

[uxb]

Sorry, Ive managed to hit the wrong button. My wee boatie is 33 ft, not 'over 50. Ft '

(We traded down from a 40 footer since it seems silly to be carrying around a lot of boat we didn't use..)

 

[Slow_boat]

My boat is 33ft, which I know is 10 meters in French, but I find it difficult to visualise size in those French meters.

 

[Seajet]

My boat is 33ft, which I know is 10 meters in French, but I find it difficult to visualise size in those French meters.

Slow_boat,

fair enough; may I ask if you learned on dinghies / smaller boats or went straight for the 33, as I think this thread is on about ?