The Perfect Boat (TPB)

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Idling the winter gives rise to a reflection from last summer on the subject of the perfect boat. I would like to invite consideration of the core essentials. A big subject like this needs a little order to prevent descent into unbridled chaos and so I propose to start the discussion with views on the perfect boats keel configuration, a debate for the determined and the perfect colour for internal bulkheads for the Homes and Gardens contributors. I just can't wait to hear your views...
 
The perfect boat ..... for me it's this one.

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There is no perfect boat. Simply because the perfect boat has to suit the kind of boating you want to do and hopefully we should want to do different sorts of boating.
Funny 25 years back I was looking for a cruising boat. Ended up buying a little trailer sailer which turned out to be a good racer. After 25 years the boat has changed my sailing patterns to involve almost exclusively racing.
Yet I never saw that as a possibility when I bought it. Its a bit small for long period of camping on it. It is a bit light in rough ocean water so I don't venture out far. The trailer is a bit iffy so I don't tow it far but leave it on a mooring.

My boys seem to like the racing with occasional short cruises. All in all the purchase was totally successful. I don't think I would be allowed to sell it. yet I do occasionally look wistfully at bigger boats (even shock horror MoBos.

My point is it is more about matching the owner to the right kind of boat. And even then preferences can change. Sadly so many owners don't have a suitable boat judging by boats never used.
PS lovely sail yesterday in 5-8 knots of breeze despite that being the 3rd day in a row of max temp over 41 degrees. The win makes it worth while. Boat is loved again.
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My point is it is more about matching the owner to the right kind of boat. And even then preferences can change. Sadly so many owners don't have a suitable boat judging by boats never used.


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I have been stressing over my next boat. I'm still working but probably don't work at sea more than 3 days a week now. Each day I head back to the wharf I check the yachts on the moorings {mine too of course]. Rarely do any move. There are boats there gathering weeds that are worth 200 thousand and they just sit there. My little 1/4 tonner is probably the cheapest here and it leaves the moorings the most. I intend to retire as soon as possible and just bum around the local area in my retirement yacht. Some days I think it will be a Nicholson 32, the next day its a Cole 32 or SS 30. Then I start to feel guilty, I will be in my "floating shed" by myself most of the time and it may be too much boat and I should make do with a Marieholm 26. Then again I keep getting more grand kids so space might be a problem.

I am convinced most of the production yachts in this country are really unsuitable for what the owner really needs. I am sure there are racer cruisers that have frightened their owners and family so they just clog up the brokers lists and moorings.
 
Tha's why there's plenty of money in owning a marina. Just a floating car park where most boats are hardly used. If they all went out out a lot there would be chaos and the need for better facilities. Makes it nice and quiet for those of us who try to get reasonable use of our boats but a mind boggling amount of money doing nothing.
 
Sage says the perfect boat is the one you have and that includes or perhpas is especially true for those who are between boats.
It is also a little known fact that green is the perfect colour for bulkheads.
 
What a fantastic looking vessel. You have defined 'ratboat'. Why do Benetau not demand that you to work for their design team.
 
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