Ahoy list!
Hope I'm doing this right. I get the "digest" version, and this used to say,
"reply to this post"...hopefully I've cleaned it up enough without a lot of
trash.
Ahmet,...Nice post,...I learned something...good stuff. enough said. And I
haven't read Animal Farm either,...didn't know about the pig thing.
Steve and others,...Ever tried the fun game of catching a a mooring ball at
your stern? I've single handed for 24 years, and thou still not an
expert,...quite the trick to swivel around,...hook the ball, then walk the
boat/ball around to the front (my 32' 10K sailboat)...not easy...but not hard
either. Surely I'm not the first to do this ;-)
Patrick
DancesWithWaves
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From:
Steve Weinstein <[email protected]>
To:
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Subject:
Re: [Liveaboard] Considering a cat - - - - - - - WAS How manyinternational
sailors with HF get arestricted radio permit.
Date:
Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:26:56 -0400
Marce, always the voice of moderation. ANYWAY, to your question, we've always
been in monohulls and I do a lot of singlehanding - a lot of times with guests
onboard if you get my drift <grins>.
Having said that, a couple of years ago, my wife and I with two other couples
chartered a Belize 42 (I think it's a Lagoon model) in the BVI. WOW. I
absolutely loved the boat and the way she handled. When it was time for us to
upgrade two years ago I seriously considered a cat except for the handling
issue while by myself or with guests that didn't know the pointy end (or ends)
from the blunt end (s).
I realized in the BVI that picking up a mooring ball, either a pick-up stick or
the kind where you've got to reach the ball to thread a bow line through the
ring, was tricky. Since a lot of time I'm out by myself for a day of sailing
out of my home marina, I'd never be able to grab the mooring ball by myself.
Tricky, to say the least.
That being said, I don't think you can beat the comfort below, or while
sailing, of a cat. I'm not that concerned about pointing issues since we're
basically cruisers and if I can only get the boat to 35-40 degrees upwind, no
big deal. All in all, if I always had 'crew' aboard, I might definitely go for
a cat.
But that's off the table for the foreseeable future since we just got Captiva
in October '08 and I intend to keep her for a long, long, time. Captiva had
everything we needed or wanted (headroom, generator, reverse cycle heat/air,
electric halyard winch, electric windlass). By the time I might be looking for
another boat it would be because of age, etc., and then would probably
transition into a trawler.....
Hopefully that's a long, long way down the road......
Steve Weinstein
S/V CAPTIVA
1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376
Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY
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