What is your dream Yacht / Boat?
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causeway
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I'd like something like the Nordhaven but with less complicated systems. The Dana is lovely too, very 'charming'
Daydream believer
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No body has said "Thames Barge " yet
Have to be a new one though
Stacks of room
No real crew problems, bit of chartering
Everyone gets out of the way,
Bit of racing,
Shallow draft
Bit of creek pottering
Bit of showing off ( but not with kevlar sails!!)
Lots of people wanting a go
Would be nice!!!
Have to be a new one though
Stacks of room
No real crew problems, bit of chartering
Everyone gets out of the way,
Bit of racing,
Shallow draft
Bit of creek pottering
Bit of showing off ( but not with kevlar sails!!)
Lots of people wanting a go
Would be nice!!!
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Blueboatman
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Nope, I already bought as large and solid and comfortable @11.3m as I dared for nimble and sailing singlehanded or shorthanded..
The two part nesting, sailing dinghy and fold up bicycle between them cover quite a lot of the things I enjoy doing when not out of sight of land..
My first boat was 40ft, and drew 7ft. That was simply too big outside and too small inside and too draining of time and money and parking options.
The two part nesting, sailing dinghy and fold up bicycle between them cover quite a lot of the things I enjoy doing when not out of sight of land..
My first boat was 40ft, and drew 7ft. That was simply too big outside and too small inside and too draining of time and money and parking options.
Pinnacle
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Although if you had one you would have chucked the job at the call centre long ago so could go sailing all day every day if you wanted !
Quite!!!
Quite!!!
sighmoon
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Barracuda 45, but built properly.
Woodlouse
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One of these please. I'd quite happily go anywhere in one and there's even enough space for the piano.
sam_uk
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Something with hydrofoils: http://www.wingo.com/dakh/williwaw.html & video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYXxZiL4B8
Enough engine grunt to foil under engine.
I guess carbon fibre hull?
Latest junk rig sails
Positive buoyancy built in.
Self righting if Trimaran.
Silent solar-electric auxiliary engine system for just pottering around.
Enough engine grunt to foil under engine.
I guess carbon fibre hull?
Latest junk rig sails
Positive buoyancy built in.
Self righting if Trimaran.
Silent solar-electric auxiliary engine system for just pottering around.
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westernman
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Then you would be interested in one of these:-
http://www.yachtworld.fr/bateaux/19...lphin-P-v--1593551/country.grèce#.Ub7B0vm8B8E
maby
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If we won a significant amount on the next lottery, we would keep the boat we've got, and buy two more of them - one to moor in NW Spain and one in the Med. Save all that boring slog from place to place and just nip over for a long weekend sailing.
prv
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I was with you all the way until the roller-blinds
. Tenacious (or is it Nelson, or both?) has them on her upper yards, and we gently mock them for it Granted a 70-footer might be a bit more lively than a 200-footer, but in my experience working aloft in breezy conditions is not as big a deal as you might think, at least on the lower part of the mast (and you should have stowed the upper parts all snug before it got hairy). The wind holds you onto the ratlines so you'd stay put even if you let go completely, and the heel means the climb is less vertical than normal. You just have to make sure you hold on tight (get an elbow round a stay) on the windward end of the roll...
I've stowed the windward half of an upper topsail at night in a force 9 hailstorm before now, and I'm a fat bloke who spends most of his time driving a desk and eating doughnuts. You're planning to ship a focsle full of lithe young paid hands, they'll think nothing of that
That's true, but who said that's what Dan wants to do?
Or, given that money is no object, perhaps he uses his other boat for that?
Pete
westernman
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Why not pay the paid hands to do the boring bits? (Or just get a delivery company to move the boat around).
They can get lost for the weekend when you are there.
maby
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Hmmm, but it would still be slow - couldn't wake up on a Friday morning, decide you want to spend the weekend bumming around the Med, hop onto a plane/train and be sailing the following morning!
michael_w
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For long distance cruising
One of these
With one of these on board
Best of both worlds, each perfect for the job.
One of these
With one of these on board
Best of both worlds, each perfect for the job.
prv
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Greenheart
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Since we're all firmly in dreamland here, can my fo'c'sle be like a St Trinian's sixth-form college dormitory?
I had meant not to have roller-blind furling...I was thinking of lines running through eyelets up the sail, at points a few feet apart, which allow it to be 'flaked' upward, below the yard, from a safely remote spot. Can't remember what that's called.
prv
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Buntlines. They're standard on any square sail since (at a guess) the early 1700s.
Having handed the sail with the buntlines and clewlines, though, you still need to lay aloft and stow them.
Pete
Greenheart
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Ah! I don't hold with these newfangled ideas.
Isn't it enough just to reduce the exposed surface of the sail to a flaked foot or eighteen inches of depth along the yard?
Woodlouse
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No, cause all the bunched up sail will flap its self to shreds in no time.
prv
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Well, it stops the sail acting as a sail, but it will still be flogging about which won't do the sail any good and in a strong wind could endanger the yard (not the big heavy steel lowers so much, but definitely a royal or a topgallant). You can sometimes leave a sail hanging in its gear (as that state is called) temporarily if you expect to need it again soon, but it depends on the wind, direction as well as strength. Sometimes it will lie still, sometimes it won't and you need to send two or four guys up to stow it.
I suppose it's a little like dropping a mainsail onto the boom but not putting any sail ties on.
Pete
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