--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Rosalie B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Rosalie B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Boat Search
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 6:54 AM
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:42:16 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >
> >I am still looking for my first liveaboard. I am now
> focusing on Pilot House/Motorsailers.
> >
> >I don't like the ideal of having to be out in the
> elements to steer the boat and I don't care for ladders
> >
> >I am hoping someone on this site has some experience
> with these boats and can share some insights.
> >
> >Casey
> >
> I don't understand the not caring for ladders. What
> does that have to
> do with pilot houses vs other boats? The pilot houses that
> I've been
> aboard have ladders.
>
> We have a center cockpit boat (CSY) with a complete
> enclosure around
> the cockpit, and we are not out in the elements to steer
> the boat. We
> can be quite warm and comfortable in cold weather (if the
> sun is out
> the enclosure acts as a sun trap), and we are in the shade
> in hot
> sunny weather. Some of the boats like ours have hard
> biminis and
> dodgers. The aft cockpit boats that CSY made were the
> smaller boats
> and the pilot houses. A center cockpit with an enclosure
> will be
> cheaper to buy because there are more of them.
>
> As for visibility - out in the weather or inside sometimes
> you just
> can't see regardless. If it is foggy - makes no
> difference inside or
> out. Driving rain - ditto. In neither case will a pilot
> house boat
> be able to see any better than an unprotected aft cockpit
> boat because
> there's reduced visibility for everyone. I wear
> glasses, and if I
> was out in the rain, I wouldn't be able to see anything
> because of
> water on my glasses (although I suppose I could wear my
> scuba mask).
> Anything that you have to protect in such case -
> pilothouse, dodger or
> whatever - the rain will obscure visibility through it.
> I've been in
> rainstorms on land that were so bad that my windshield
> wipers on the
> car could not keep up with the rain. In such cases, I
> wouldn't have a
> problem because we wouldn't be out there. If we were
> out there we
> would be proceeding with extreme caution or anchored or
> hove to or
> whatever seemed best at the time.
>
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