Jeanneau Rush

[30boat]

A not very experienced friend of mine wants to take his Rush offshore.He's planning to go to the Azores and Cape Verde.I know the boat well and don't think it's offshore material.It's too twitchy and unstable but it has made a trip to the Canaries under a previous ownership so it's not impossible.I usually do trips like that on my Fulmar but that's a completely different boat.
Does anybody have experience of these boats?

 

[oldsalt]

Assuming the Rush is properly prepared, then I see no problem at all. Compared with a Fulmar, they are more reponsive, but are much less "twitchy" than many modern boats that regularly do similar trips. It is certainly not unstable, in fact they are nice boats to sail.

 

[Aja]

A not very experienced friend of mine wants to take his Rush offshore.He's planning to go to the Azores and Cape Verde.I know the boat well and don't think it's offshore material.It's too twitchy and unstable but it has made a trip to the Canaries under a previous ownership so it's not impossible.I usually do trips like that on my Fulmar but that's a completely different boat.
Does anybody have experience of these boats?

For clarification - I attach an image of my previous boat Rebel - a Jeanneau Rush

A really nice boat this particular one was purchased in France and sailed up to Oban. We had her for five or so years and covered a lot of miles only once did we get a scare and that was in a crossing from Tarbert (Harris) to Loch Dunvegan. The wind was NE F6 gusting 7 but the sea state was very big waves. Least said but it took us nearly eight hours to get into Stein. Not a pleasant sail - but I think the boat was stronger than we were. She's very twitchy down-wind. A typical Ron Holland tucked in stern.

Regards
Donald