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Does Jud have your book?  I'll recommend it if he doesn't.  It's will written and we'll laid out.

Many years ago a Detroit restaurant owner and his wife disappeared while sailing their Freedom cat boat back from the Bahamas.  The conjecture was the spar came loose from it's base and peeled the deck open, sinking the boat quickly.  There were no radio transmissions and nothing was ever found.

The most undesirable characteristic of an offshore yacht is a schedule.

I sanded or bottom last year to prep for new bottom paint.  There little I don't do myself if I have the time.   Is our cost higher then a smaller boat?  Yes but again you can change your own oil, service pumps, wax the hull or even repaint it if that is in your wheelhouse. We've met many...

I agree completely with your comments, our boat is certainly not the right boat for everyone.  That's why they print wallpaper right, we're all different. But that said, there is allot of old waterline that can be bought very reasonably, like a Swan 61 for $300k.  These are great values, great...

Waterline solves a lot of these issues.

This is a surprise?  The majority of industry build boats with pans, it's quick and cost effective.  They aren't really repairable and not especially strong but does anyone believe it's going to change.  Look at the problem the Lagoon 45 owners (+1,000 owners) are facing, the builder just walks...

I would think with a centerboard boat the risk of capsize would be minimized in breaking waves with the board up for the simple fact the boat would skid when hit broad side.  I don't have experience with a cruising centerboard boat in those conditions so it's just conjecture on my part.  Of the...

At the end of the day you sail what you have and if you don't like it you move onto something else.  Just finished a light air passage back to the East Coast, mostly sailing but a bit of motoring too, lotsa dead down wind.  Didn't bother with the kites, to lazy.  We did catch 2 Albacore and ate...

We've met a lot of cruisers who've begun sailing late in life.  Tough to learn seamanship without experience but to their credit they seem proficient and cautious.

Offshore, new or old...

So sorry to hear Ish. Good that you were near by and able to spend time with them.  I miss my folks every day.

Although I've owned and raced these, I don't want a bigger version for cruising.

Early on it wasn't, it was just the same ol same ol.  Glad to see it's being well discussed without the typical thread degradation.

To the OP, maybe just read the book.  This thread is going nowhere.