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New Gunboat 68  https://www.gunboat.com/series/gunboat68/ Actually easier to get to BC from Caribbean I think....plus we have other reasons to stop in the US on the way there and back...but either way it's 20-30+ hours of travel just to a gateway plus 3-6 hours more to the hill. Each way...

This is an existential dilemma for us, since we love the Caribbean and heli-skiing. Still struggling for the right balance.

Nothing? Nada? Zip?

It's beautiful, always admire well kept brightwork. When I was boatshopping for a liveaboard cruiser the top of my list was: Zero exterior woodwork.  Almost made it! We have about 50 sq. inches of bare teak on our two transom steps. Token teak.

Looks a lot like the Drascombe Lugger https://drascombe.uk/ Or a Bay Raider https://swallowyachts.com/range/bay-raider-20/

As a recent convert to cat from a life of mono - I would say at anchor the cat motion is better 70-80% of the time, worse 10-15%. The vulnerability is a short period chop close to the beam - which makes the cat skitter. Once the period stretches out and the monos are rolling, you don't even...

Easier to sail, by far, than his other yacht 90m Athena in January off Antigua

well.....you just need a bigger family....or more friends?

This Bowman is in better shape than the Nic.... https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1979/bowman-corsair-3661882/ Or Jim Clarke might let you borrow Hanuman?

https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1971/camper-nicholsons-nicholson-43-3471400/

Yeah, this is where internet forums fall so far short of conversation - because if we were talking I'd agree with you, and then qualify my agreement with some further observation, etc. But even in near real time (or generally with more latency), it gets old quickly....

No rudder, hard. Latitude sailing to a North-South coast by sextant, easy. 

Hear that tick tock noise?? Building boats takes too long, and you have to make a lot of decisions about things you don't care about that much. So many boats for sale..... That may be my delivery skipper background talking - take them as I find them, go sailing....

And time consuming (thus expensive) to maintain - at least ordinary timber construction is. I've owned a wood boat...and sailed on and cared for other wood boats. It's just an entire extra bucket of time/money on top of everything else on a similar fiberglass boat. Some people sail to mess about...

Ted Hood drew a lot of fast centerboard boats with this design approach - heavy, shallow draft, board only heavy enough to go down. No idea on numerical RM or AVS. I sailed his LH53 design about 5K miles in a wide variety of East Coast conditions (no breaking waves, though close once) and it was...

Haven't read it, don't know his argument. But we broke our windlass 3 weeks ago and DHL is camping on the replacement in transit for 2 weeks now. So we've been using our backup which is all rope with a short chain leader. Forcibly reminded me of two great advantages of all chain - first, it's...

The roughest weather we've seen on the A57 was off Cape Cod on our very first trip with the boat enroute from GA to Halifax in June '19. Double reefed main, double reefed genoa, 100 AWA, 25-30 AWS with higher gusts, waves maybe 12' and building. Boards were up, we were sailing high teens to low...

One more full keel story. My first real offshore trip was on an amateur built engineless steel Thomas Colvin 48' Pinky Gaff Schooner called Papillon. I joined the owners in the Fall of 1979 in Southwest Harbor, ME to sail to Cape Henry. We sailed out into a 3-day SW'ly blow (hey, I wasn't the...

We've found our Atlantic 57 steers better with a little daggerboard down off the wind.