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Subject: RE: [world-cruising] How To Determine If Yacht is Blue Water Worthy
From: Barry Brazier (ozboats@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 08:13:45 EST
My son did the really bad Sydney Hobart successfully in a 40 beneteau. The
year 200 pulled out.
Beneteaus are not all the same. Some are made to order ie charter by large
fleets. Thses are not always the same as boats provided to privae buyers.
Barry
-----Original Message-----
From: alan.pound@XXX.XXX]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:50 AM
To: world-cruising@XXX.XXX
Subject: RE: [world-cruising] How To Determine If Yacht is Blue Water
Worthy
Size isn't everything. The 15 year old boy was sailing a Contessa, a boat
with a reputation for seaworthiness and having a stability curve that
would
be the envy of almost anything afloat. I am willing to bet that his
father
(who was racing him in another Contessa) would *not* have countenanced the
same exercise in Beneteaus of any length...
As a very general statement (and with the risks associated with any
generalisation), Beneteaus are quite lightly built quite beamy,
flat-bottomed boats (slam into wind), built to a price, and for a mission
of
floating around mediterranean marinas. As an example of the sort they are
really as good as any.
You may well be fine on the trip you plan in the Beneteau, but be
circumspect about the weather conditions you choose. Personally I would
say
that a Contessa would be far preferable, but I guess that isn't the boat
you
have...
Alan
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