Cape Dory 25
Cape Dory 30
Monitor 36
Tayana 37
South Hants England one off
Pacific Seacraft 34
Outbound 46
I learned to sail on a Wm. Fife ketch. I’ve raced some of my boats and hinckleys, one offs Jboats and others.
I sold the Outbound today!!
So actively looking for a trawler. I’m a total newbie on power other than helping on transports of new GBs back in the day.
Please please help me. Teach me. Excuse my lack of powerboat knowledge as
I descend into the dark side -
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Howdy Hipp!
Believe me, I am not picking on you - at all!!
I simply bring up the following now, because... "Descent into the Dark Side" has soooo [too] often been used as a soliloquy trying to define a pleasure boating person's mental state during transfer from sale to power.
May I respectfully input: Transfer from sale to power, rather than entering into the "Dark Side", is actually moving up to the "Sun Light Side"; regarding broad-view windows creating glorious sunlight inside a boat's confines. Also, if a power boat is so equipped [which many are] and persons are inclined to utilize the
great [that's my experienced opinion] flying bridge - then a 360 degree view is awesome; cruising experience becomes and remains a visual extravaganza as well as nature-filled thrill!
Now - I surely don't mean to imply that there isn't a "light side" regarding less pollution factors when using a sailboat - "under sail
only" that is. However, from numerous ways of gaining general boating knowledge, during my many decades of boating, I've consistently been appraised that sailboats travel under power approximately 60% of the time. Therefore, that form of defining "light side" regarding sailboats as compared to power boats became... well... a large %age less light.
In closing... with BIG smile on my face
... I confidently say!
Boat anyway you like, with any boat you like, at any time you like, with whoever you like....... Just please realize........Sail boating and power boating each contain their own "Dark Sides" and "Light Sides"
Never Forget: "Pleasure Boating" [of any kind] in and of its own volition is simply one of the very best ways to help us enjoy going through our productive years on this planet - Period!!