Leisure 17 mast height...and other details (all informed comments welcome)

Well gentlemen, what a rare pleasure it is, to have begun a thread on a theme which meets with happy unanimity.

Can there be another yacht out there which has such wide acquaintance and solid approval? If there are any, I've missed them.

It's a curious thing - I've seen the L17 out there for almost as long as I've been sailing, but it never occurred to me till now, that one might just be exactly what I want. Not that I'd ever sell my Osprey - which satisfies my desire for performance. P'raps I'll buy a Leisure 17, and cruise with both boats...as the first chap whose dinghy is six inches longer than his yacht? :confused:

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(If anyone thinks it might be funny to start being foul about the L17, it's too late. :p )
 
Dan,

didn't know whether to relate this, but it's an example of not knowing a good thing when spoon fed one...

A young novice in Wales contacted me, he fancied a cheap Anderson 22; the only cheap one going was at a certain dubious dealers on the English East Coast.

Suffice to say that boat and especially the deal they wanted didn't suit, so matey in Wales managed to avoid a long journey.

I did know of a good TK Leisure 17 at my club ( not the aforementioned Tina ), on a trailer, in good condition, the owner had moved abroad with the forces and left her 90 % ready refitted in really good nick, just wanted a couple of hundred £ to sort berthing fees - I knew the chap handling it for the owner, we teed it all up, and the novice Welsh bloke despite saying ' brilliant, I have the tow car ' never turned up, never called either of us.

If I'd had a drone with a Hellfire missile...

The boat has gone now, I hope to a grateful owner.
 
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Tam Lin,

remember she has a self draining cockpit, and a decently modest freeboard 17' LOA.

Nowadays she'd be 3 times as high with aft cabins, basement & wine cellar, and sail like it ! :)
 
Seajet said:
Tam Lin,

remember she has a self draining cockpit, and a decently modest freeboard 17' LOA.

Nowadays she'd be 3 times as high with aft cabins, basement & wine cellar, and sail like it ! :)
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Yes, I'm not knocking it, a great little boat but I am too big for her as I was for the Anderson 22. I expect that if I was younger and my knees worked better I might have given it a go but as it is I will have to put up with the Centaur!
 
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