Your ideal boat?

[Dyflin]

If you were given a choice of any boat for free, but it had to be one that you could afford to keep, what would it be?

Mine would be this little beauty:

 

[Twister_Ken]

minus teak deck!

 

[Judders]

I think that I would go down to Ashley Butler's new yard in Dartmouth and sit down and come up with something based on the Guide Me.

 

[Sybarite]

There is one design bit I don't like about it - otherwise lovely boat. You have to go through the aft head to get to the aft cabin.

I would also like to be able to helm from inside. The auto-pilot will not be man enough when you most want to stay inside warm and dry.

John

 

[Bat21]

You are indeed sir a man of taste and the teak decks are fantastic if you look after them !! I was asked this weekend if my 16 year old HR was New! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[David_Jersey]

A RIB /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

This one....

Holman and Pye 50' one off....

 

[Twister_Ken]

"The auto-pilot will not be man enough when you most want to stay inside warm and dry"

Fit a windvane!

 

[Vara]

This one;

But without in-mast furling!

 

[ColinHuggins]

So we can all dream . . . and by definition dreams are not made of reel (!) stuff. And reality should have taught you that every boat, like a woman, is a compromise. I've sailed pilot cutters and catamarans, Fastnet winners and ditch crawlers. And loved 'em all, some more than others - those were the ones I actually owned.
But if still had a secret hankering after forty years of messin' about in boats I really would go out and buy it.
(Hopefully 'er indoors doesn't read these pages!).

 

[Lakesailor]

Yes. It's the same as "What's you're ideal car?"

Depends.

 

[Stork_III]

I thoroughly agree, got one myself but without the teak decks just cockpit, much better. Fast safe craft, ideal for wife & I. The new 31 Mk II not a great improvement over my 31 but am tempted by the 37 though.

 

[KREW2]

http://www.scanmar-yachts.com/Sc40.html
It's bootiful

 

[bobfrost]

Wanted for years a Vancouver 27 as above.

Couldn't afford at time so got Contessa 26. Think I'll stick.

 

[Bejasus]

Personally, I find this a rather attractive piece of eye candy.

 

[Bejasus]

although I am currently trying to get my sticky mits on one of these.

 

[Achillesheel]

I have found for years that the ideal boat is one four feet longer than the one I've got.

From my Mirror dinghy upwards.

 

[jonjo]

Re: Cargo 50

Sail and make money carrying 10 to 25 tons of cargo with this design.

http://www.dixdesign.com/cargo50.htm

Or setup a stainless steel welding workshop in the 150 sq ft hold.

 

[trondh]

Interesting choice.
I have been looking for a type of boat that fullfilled my list of "must have" for a long time.
This week I bought a HR 31 /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[TigaWave]

Re: Cargo 50

I like that idea...but for just cruising and working via laptop...
I met this boat a few years back and stayed on her for a while.. designed for cruising from the keel up.