baart
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An upgrade that would make the boat more comfortable or easier to handle. Looking for ideas. 30ft Hunter.
What would you spend £1000 on?
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Boathook
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Fridge, cooker, autohelm, refurb the heads and galley, new headsail. I think I require to add a zero to your figure ......
johnalison
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In terms of usefulness, though not necessarily within budget, I would say
self-tailing winches
autopilot
diesel heater
cockpit-led lines
fridge
(laminate jib)
self-tailing winches
autopilot
diesel heater
cockpit-led lines
fridge
(laminate jib)
Wansworth
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What does it already have……and how fit are you!
KevinV
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Better clothes? Everything is easier when you're warm, dry and comfortable.
Poignard
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Windvane steering system (assuming you could get one for £1,000)
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If it doesn't already have one then a heater, extends the season from 3 to 12 months
baart
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Good point, already have self tailing winches x4, all lines led to cockpit, tiller autopilot, 12v fridge. Thought about heating but we always stop at marinas and it turned out that a simple convector heater does the job and underway we are in the cockpit anyway. For the same reason never got to install a shower or hot water system. We are still resonably fit and aiming to keep it that way
We have good reasonably new electronics. No radar though but so far have not been in a situation where one would be needed.
Upgrading the heads to electric is an option. Also thought about bimini top but not sure if it would work on such a small boat. Windvane sounds tempting not sure if it is possible to get one for that kind of money.
Chiara’s slave
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1st thing that came to my mind too.
johnalison
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Radar is a tricky one. It would normally be outside you budget, and 30’ may be on the small side for fitting one. I would say that in the seventeen years that we cruised foreign for three months each year in our present boat radar proved critical on about four occasions, in three of which we would not have set out at all. AIS is a fair but not complete alternative.Good point, already have self tailing winches x4, all lines led to cockpit, tiller autopilot, 12v fridge. Thought about heating but we always stop at marinas and it turned out that a simple convector heater does the job and underway we are in the cockpit anyway. For the same reason never got to install a shower or hot water system. We are still resonably fit and aiming to keep it that way
We have good reasonably new electronics. No radar though but so far have not been in a situation where one would be needed.
Upgrading the heads to electric is an option. Also thought about bimini top but not sure if it would work on such a small boat. Windvane sounds tempting not sure if it is possible to get one for that kind of money.
baart
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Could you say a bit more about it please?
doug748
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baart
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Biggles Wader
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A couple of days cruising round the Solent would soon soak up a grand. Apart from that, a new genoa for me.
Wansworth
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Cannot get much meaning full stuff for that considering your boat is already well equipped……..save for rainy day?
Concerto
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Hot water is my top choice to improve your boat as that would be used all year round, followed by a heating system.
Personally I feel radar is over rated and hardly ever used and as for an electric toilet, whats wrong with a manual one.
Personally I feel radar is over rated and hardly ever used and as for an electric toilet, whats wrong with a manual one.
ylop
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cause or effect? Is the reason you always go to marinas that you can plug in! Would being able to go somewhere different add value to your sailing?
whilst I am sure windvanes can be used for marina hopping I am not sure you will see any major benefit unless doing long passages (where the heater would be further up my list) or are consuming too much power with your autopilot.
i am surprised nobody has suggested a code0/genaker/spinnaker. I’m not sure what is needed to do that on your boat -or if technically it meets the “easier to handle” definition but it would certainly be on my list of considerations if all the other things were ticked.
for U.K. sailing I’m not convinced a Bimini adds anything but a full cockpit cover might?
geem
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New swim shorts for me then?
Stingo
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Bitcoin, and then in about a year´s time, my budget should be significantly hjgher
