pugwash
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I have just read with amazement in April YM James's review of the new Legend 41. Here is a 39-ft boat costing around around £120,000 to get to sea and when you get there it will be impossible to sleep. By that I mean there are no sea-berths. The double bunk in the aft stateroom is athwartships, so not much good on either tack. The forward stateroom has a double bunk which would sleep one person at sea and only on a port tack. The big sofa, James raves about (I'm not criticising his review by the way, only the boat) is not long enough sleep on, nor is the dinette arrangement opposite. So much for "stress-free cruising with home-from-home comforts" as James puts it.
Think about it. Your own kids might share a bedroom readily enough but would they share a (small) double bed? And what if the owner decides to take three friends for a trip to Cherbourg. Which of the Scuttlebutters we all know and love would we want to doss down with?
There are other extraordinary points, like the cooker that's stuck on top of the workbench just where you'd want to put the washing up. And no liferaft in sight. But it does have red "courtesy lighting" (thank you James!)on the stairs. What next?
I have to declare that I'm no lover of AWBs, and anyway I could never afford one, but this takes the biscuit. Why would anyone buy a boat for cruising in which it was impossible to sleep at sea? I know this is not the only example of that ilk.
You could haul out my own 30-footer and park it on this boat's cabin table, but at least mine has four secure and comfortable sea-berths.
Would someone please explain to me the rationale for vessels of the Legend 41 sort?
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Think about it. Your own kids might share a bedroom readily enough but would they share a (small) double bed? And what if the owner decides to take three friends for a trip to Cherbourg. Which of the Scuttlebutters we all know and love would we want to doss down with?
There are other extraordinary points, like the cooker that's stuck on top of the workbench just where you'd want to put the washing up. And no liferaft in sight. But it does have red "courtesy lighting" (thank you James!)on the stairs. What next?
I have to declare that I'm no lover of AWBs, and anyway I could never afford one, but this takes the biscuit. Why would anyone buy a boat for cruising in which it was impossible to sleep at sea? I know this is not the only example of that ilk.
You could haul out my own 30-footer and park it on this boat's cabin table, but at least mine has four secure and comfortable sea-berths.
Would someone please explain to me the rationale for vessels of the Legend 41 sort?
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