Thanks all kine Bob. Still shopping and started on a Passport 40 look, very similar to your Valiant 40 (I appreciate your words on the 37 - I just missed one with lots of gear and older owner giving up sailing - he accepted $38K for it and if it does not go thru I'll look hard and maybe get my...
The single handed sailing society (SF) is a great resource for many texts and posts - and people.
Tiller please. Best reason not to have a wheel? In a lovely cove in Pacific Panama with a white sand beach (covered with rats unfortunately) we arrived several hours before others, and achored out...
This querry has been posted on the cruising anarchy section, as I should have done initially. What a putz!
Hate varnish having sailed a lovely wooden boat for three years from Sauaslito to Florida in the mid-90s.
As to rockets, had the pleasure of being part of a 4-person delivery crew of Tom...
Looking for information available of plusses and minuses of these two boat makes before I fly to see one each on the mainland. The individual boats are quite different so just asking if there is a consensus of which boat is thought better for offshore single and short handed long-distance...
Looking for information available of plusses and minuses of these two boat makes before I fly to see one each on the mainland. The individual boats are quite different so just asking if there is a consensus of which boat is thought better for offshore single and short handed long-distance...
The owners told me they have posted new interior images over the last weekend on the above craigslist link. Looks like a lot of work, but many of us have probably done that with boat lust. I know I have.
If anyone on this list is interested, a Truant BC 33' pilothouse has just popped up in Hawaii - https://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/boa/d/ocean-view-real-cruiser-33-ft/6784424260.html
I have not seen her and do not know the boat nor the owner(s). Asking is $19.5K. So there you may be.
If...
Charlie recommends
George Gallup
http://www.gallupyachtsurveying.com/
Bernie Feeney
http://www.gulfofmaineboatsurveyors.com/
James Igoe
http://www.jigoemarinesurvey.com/
Any or all okay? Any better. Long distance ocean sailing boat is the plan. THANK YOU!
Interesting site, but it also appears he is retired from surveying - " In 2012, David Pascoe has retired from marine surveying business at age 65." Thanks tho, you two. I would not have seen his material and learned about him.