Wansworth
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This is a very pertinent question for me as due to go see a small boat inCoruna although atthe back of my mind I am thinking maybe I should concentrate on gardening or painting instead of getting another boat?
How do you swallow the anchor?
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Frogmogman
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I’m starting to have a Groundhog Day feeling ?
Wansworth
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Not very helpful?
Chiara’s slave
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Whilst the decision is decades away for me, I think my anchor is too big to swallow. My boats will just have to be smaller and easier to manage. Electric winches or handles will help, but ultimately, I'll be sitting on a little motorboat in a nice sheltered harbour boring the pants off the youngsters.
Birdseye
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I would like to own one but, being plagued by a bad back, I doubt whether I would be able to get in and out of it!
Dont be tempted - the longer door ones are easier but thats not the same as easy. And since the Trad Morgan has little and archaic suspension, they bounce and rattly from road crater to crater. To like one you have to have a similar mentality to those yotties who ownold wooden gaffer from the 1890s and claim that nothing has improved since then
You need one of those as much as you need a 19 year old nymphete!
Greenheart
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That's how I see it - and it must still beat gardening. Barring near-total immobility, I can't see a need to decide unhappily between a big boat or none.
I'm not thinking of the OP, who has clearly sailed far in his boat. But it's odd if (after decades of paying hugely for an ocean-going yacht which rarely left the marina), the prospect of downsizing to a boat with only the modest capabilities the owner actually always needed, is a blow to his pride worse than giving up altogether.
There are hundreds of great novels set at sea. When I can't do anything but sit and sip tea, there'll be a stack of books beside my chair. Till then, my boats will match my budget (or my ability to haul them up a slipway).
Wansworth
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Appointment to view yacht in Coruna[Sada) tomorrow Ifeel surprisingly light of foot?
