Seawolf 26

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As a confirmed mobo , I tread lightly here , but I have the chance of getting my hands on an old seawolf 26 , and was wonderring if this is a boat that is worth getting hold of . Anyone know of the type , and is she likely to be any good to a mobo trying out the other side . She looks alright , but as I've never sailed I'm not sure if there are things to avoid
Thanks all
Dave
 
Seadog is spot on. I sailed a Seawolf 30 for years and they are a good design, although David Feltham was a better designer than builder.
But as a someone with feet in both camps, I do advise learning to sail a dinghy a.s.a.p. You can move on to a floating home with booze, bog and bird when you've mastered he strings 'n things.
Best of luck!
 
I have a friend nearby that has been nagging at me to get in his dinghy for some lessons , so I'll be doing that , but what's this 'high aspect rig' thing
 
It's a big tall rig and sails for the size of boat, high aspect ratio means the sails are very tall for the width which in the case of the Seawolves is only partly true. More true is to say that they are big.
This means you have to reef earlier or sail more actively in terms of sheeting in and out all the time luffing up and spiliing wing falttening sails etc etc. On the plus side you can keep sailing for longer when the wind drops. On the plus side it's more fun
 
That explains that bit , but I think I'd better start taking lessons to understand the rest .
I take it , she'll be a bit much for a novice then ? .
 
Jumping in.
No.
Just do it!
In fact a dinghy is a pain IMHO. No beer storage, wet backside and skitty, prone to capsize.
Boat is like a Mobo till you put the rag things onto the stick assembly.
Height of all anxiousness is take off and landing, and you already know that bit.
Cajole someone (me for instance) to take you out on an EAst Coast river of your choice for a day, and off you go. I/Anyone can teach you to sail in 20 minutes, which will take you a lifetime to learn.
Remember you need a bit more deeps, and it takes more time to arrive, and you must learn to look at the world at 20 degrees to the vertical.
 
Now that I understood , that's how I did it with the mobo . But can't you just sail with the boat still vertical , 20 degrees sounds a bit scary .
 
Aha! first rule of cruising as opposed to sailing. If you sail dead downwind, it doesnt heel at all (well it can, but thats another story). The added benefit being that the wind feels a lot gentler, and you are going quickly.
On the East Coast this is not a problem as the prevailing winds in and out of the rivers is either dead downwind or dead upwind, which means you get it one way or the other, see?
Lesson 2 will be why 'Gentlemen dont beat'. It means dont sail upwind and you wont get as wet. Thats what the well found rotating diesel thing is for.
S'easy this.
Next?
 
aaaahh , so if I wait till the winds in the right direction before casting off , I don't need to lean , and if the wind changes direction I revert to mobo mode . Sounds simple when put like that . But what I really wanted was opinions on the boat , and me being a novice sailor with that boat .
 
Any boat is lovely to its owner. Cant help more than that with this one, havent heard bad things, nor especially nice things.
Its all in the eye of the beholder........
 
Oi, you pair! I have offered to assist in the conversion, and you only need one. After all, I started in Mobos when I was 2 years old.......
 
Would love to offer kind words about the Seawolf (wasn't he a u-boat commander?) but I think not many of them can have made it around the corner and into the English Channel, coz I've never knowingly beheld one.

P'raps best not to sail one on the night of a full moon?
 
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