If you could choose any boat...

[StellaGirl]

to do an Atlantic crossing on and then sail around the Carribean in - what would it be?

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[chas]

IP 485

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[ROSSCO]

qm2

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[bigmart]

Ocean 60 or 75. It'll take anything thrown at it, Sail trhrough any kind of sea & they're built like Brick Outhouses.

Martin

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[StellaGirl]

i knew it was only a question of minutes before someone suggested QM2.....

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[tome]

I'd happily do it in my boat if only I could get the time!

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[IanPoole2]

One of those "Star Clipper" boats - lots of canvas and the height of luxury.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[boatmike]

Single hander?
Crew of Gorillas?
Wife?
Kids?
Mother in law (heaven forbid!)

There are no bad boats. Just bad crews.........

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Rowana]

Someone else's


<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[StellaGirl]

I did last years ARC on an Ocean 60 with just 3 other crew. Built like an outhouse true - loads of space - true.

Downside was that 28 tonnes of boat needs a bit more then 15kts of wind to go fast enough to catch tuna...

38 degrees C below deck was pretty unbearable too - but I know we werent the only ones - A/C would have been nice...

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Badger]

The search is over.....

I just need the money now ...

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Aardee]

Amel Maramu.

<hr width=100% size=1>"I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me..."

 

[Jacket]

Twister, or some other simple long keeler under 30 foot. If you're somewhere as nice as the Carribean, who wants to spend all their time with their head burried in the engine room, trying to repair all those electrical systems that aren't really needed anyway?

(Translate as, I'm lazy, so the less there is that needs looking after, the happier I am)

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Twister_Ken]

Vancouver 38 Pilothouse

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/twister1>Let's Twist Again</A>

 

[Ric]

Northshore Southerly 135
or
Alliage 45DS
or
Garcia Passoa 45
or
JFA 45DS

Whatever, it would be a deck saloon boat, with variable keel geometry, cutter-rigged, and self-tacking staysail.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Broadblue 38

Just enough for two people and a hull each for those times when privacy is required.......

<hr width=100% size=1>Julian

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.topcatsail.co.uk>Top Cat Homepage</A>

 

[Becky]

Much depends on crew availability, but I have more or less decided on a Westerly Conway. Heavy strong, not too wide down below, loads of cupboards, you would call them lockers, which would stay shut in rough weather, two heads, two bedrooms, sorry, cabins, while there is plenty of room in the saloon to stow bedding when guests come to stay. And very affordable. If I won the lottery, I would have an HR 42, or Najad, or maybe a Malo of the same size. But I don't do the lottery, so that is unlikely. I don't much like the trend for wide yachts, they seem to be so stable upside down. And expensive; and bouncy in a seaway.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[tome]

Ideal boat for us:

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[doris]

QE 2 old girl.nm

.

<hr width=100% size=1>Real men do it 2handed.

 

[Oldhand]

Re: Vancouver 38 Pilothouse

Nice greenhouse Ken

<hr width=100% size=1>