RedRascal
Senior Member
Hello, after reading this forum for many months, I've decided it's time to join. Lots of great knowledge here which I really appreciate. At the moment my wife and I have a 14' stitch and glue skiff named Rascal that I made with my Dad a number of years ago. That's mainly used for pulling nieces and nephews on a tube or for crabbing out of Westport, WA. In a couple years we'll target finding a boat for cruising the inside passage to Alaska and after a few years of that I'd like to switch over to the East Coast and the warm waters of the Bahamas.
For now we are chartering different types of boats to get a feel for what works for us. To date we've tried out a Selene 36, Bayliner 3988 and Ocean Alexander 39. We enjoy cruising the San Juans and Gulf Islands but we are also targeting Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island and Desolation Sound next. In a past life I use to live on a Catalina 30 and did 5 trips from Seattle to Barkley Sound with it. I was lucky enough in the 1990s to do at trip from Seattle to Mexico on a 35' sailboat. As for Alaska I've done the Inside Passage via a cruise ship, Alaska State Ferry and one fishing boat delivery. I am looking forward to doing my next Alaska trip on my own boat and my own schedule.
My wife and I explore land via our VW Westfalia Vanagon camper and have done Seattle to Dead Horse, AK with it. I think our Westfalia travels will help us out with boat shopping because we are use to exploring with small and limited accommodations. At the moment we are all over the place with our boat list, Bayliner 3288 and 3888s, CHB 34s, Ocean Alexander 38s galley down, Nordhavn 40s, Grand Banks 42s and Bayliner 4788s. We're working through the must haves, like 2 staterooms, island queen bed, shower stall, safe walk around decks, 3-4 year resale ease, etc. I'll fire up a boat shopping thread when I get our target list of boats narrowed down. Cheers!
For now we are chartering different types of boats to get a feel for what works for us. To date we've tried out a Selene 36, Bayliner 3988 and Ocean Alexander 39. We enjoy cruising the San Juans and Gulf Islands but we are also targeting Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island and Desolation Sound next. In a past life I use to live on a Catalina 30 and did 5 trips from Seattle to Barkley Sound with it. I was lucky enough in the 1990s to do at trip from Seattle to Mexico on a 35' sailboat. As for Alaska I've done the Inside Passage via a cruise ship, Alaska State Ferry and one fishing boat delivery. I am looking forward to doing my next Alaska trip on my own boat and my own schedule.
My wife and I explore land via our VW Westfalia Vanagon camper and have done Seattle to Dead Horse, AK with it. I think our Westfalia travels will help us out with boat shopping because we are use to exploring with small and limited accommodations. At the moment we are all over the place with our boat list, Bayliner 3288 and 3888s, CHB 34s, Ocean Alexander 38s galley down, Nordhavn 40s, Grand Banks 42s and Bayliner 4788s. We're working through the must haves, like 2 staterooms, island queen bed, shower stall, safe walk around decks, 3-4 year resale ease, etc. I'll fire up a boat shopping thread when I get our target list of boats narrowed down. Cheers!