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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] looking for a boat
From: Rosalie B. (gmbeasley@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 23:32:01 EDT
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:07:19 -0500, you wrote:
>It is nice to hear someone agree with me. Thanks for speaking up. I have
>sailed and race Dingy to J-30's but nothing larger at all. I did a lot a
>inland "pond racing" and just as much Gulf racing. I spent some time in San
>Diego and worked at the North Sails loft for a little while doing finishing
>work for them. I tell you all this because some on the list seem my "from"
>name of Capt is inappropriate. I don't have friend in the world that
>doesn't call me Capt or Capt Buffalo, Buffalo being my last name.
Capt has a different meaning in boating or for that matter in the Navy.
One does not call someone who is not wearing scrambled eggs on his hat Capt
in the Navy.
>
>In hopes of looking where I can find answers to the kind of questions I
>have, can you please point me toward a published source of sailboat reviews?
>We will have about $80,000 - $1000,000 to spend and want to live aboard
>also. Most, if not all, of our sailing will be extreme South Florida (Keys)
>and only a days travel further from there.
Try Practical Sailor. THey have a whole bunch of used boat reviews that
they will fax or send to you. You might also look at the boats being
cruised by the SSCA members. These people have all done at least 1500
miles offshore, or some variant of that, and lived aboard for several years
at a minimum.
If you want to spend that kind of money, you should have no trouble getting
a good boat.
We chartered a boat twice (with a crew) for a week each time so we could
get some idea of what living aboard a boat would be like. You could
probably bareboat if you wanted to. We chartered in the Virgin Islands,
but I think there are boats out of FL or the Bahamas that you can charter -
actually Oceanside Marina in Key West (Stock Island actually) chartered a
catamaran, and we met the couple that chartered it down at Ft. Jefferson.
After you've lived aboard for a bit, you will know better what kind of
things to look for inside the boat.
Are you going to hang out on a mooring, or be at a dock? A boat that is
also a home isn't always sailed as much as one that is not lived aboard,
but kept ready to go all the time.
You might try the live-aboard list instead of this one. Some of them
actually live aboard.
grandma Rosalie
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