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Where'd you get the collapsible water tanks, please.
Thank you.
rich tomich wrote:
> Mike, I'm in the process of looking at Cat's right now. I've sailed across the pond to England and back, spent a lot of time in the Gulf and some around Vancouver. I hope to be heading out from Florida late 2004. Anyway, we should stay in touch. I'm looking at Cat's because I'm tired of seeing the world at a 22 degree angle. Here are some tips from my past. I didn't worry about expanding the water tank. Seemed like too much work. Instead, I took expandable tanks, which were a pain, but worked. I liked the fact that I could move them around to help balance things and of course I kept them as low as possible for stability, which is too obvious to mention. Sorry to insult your intelligence. Never had a water shortage problem. Electrical power has always been my need. I'm always amazed how fast I can drain a battery or need power when the sun can't get through the clouds or the wind isn't blowing. And I hate the loud hum of a generator too much to use it except on rare occasio
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> Anyway, just some thoughts. Heading north to ski with some friends for a few days. Talk to you when I get back. I'm interested in your circumnavigation route.
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> Mike <> wrote:
> Hello, I am a new group member, and a new sailboat sailor (though I
> did a Westpac in 1986 when I was in the US Navy). I'm learning to
> sail with the intent of fulfilling a life-long dream of sailing
> around the world, or as much of it as I can manage. I plan to work
> up to it, first sailing the Channel Islands in California, then
> Mexico, the Carribean, and finally going off on my round-the-world
> cruise, or at least around Cape Horn, however far my finances manage
> to allow me to go.
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> I'm leaning towards a steel or aluminum boat, or heavily built
> fiberglass. The questions I have relate to outfitting the boat, and
> what's the most expensive or difficult things to upgrade. Tankage is
> the biggest concern of mine. How difficult/expensive is it to expand
> the tank capacity for fuel and water, if I find an otherwise suitable
> boat that I like and want to buy? Is this more or less of a major
> problem to solve with a fiberglass boat, than steel or aluminum?
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> It seems to me, based on my research so far, that I should seek a
> boat with all the basic infrastructure already there. It should
> already have a marine toilet and holding tank. It should already
> have adequate tankage for fuel (at least 50 gal.) and water (at least
> 100 gal.). It should have a sound diesel engine with low-ish hours,
> or a recent rebuild. If it's steel or aluminum, it should already
> have a foam insulation liner installed. It should have sound basic
> rigging and need few upgrades in this area. If I decide I want a
> genset, it should already be integrated into the electrical system.
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> It seems to me that these basic items are the ones that make a cheap
> boat into the cheap boat that you can't afford. Electronics,
> amenities like deck shower and pressure water, reefer, auto-pilot or
> windvane, solar panels or wind generator, and "add ons" like that
> seem to be much easier to upgrade or install, than adding tankage, or
> replacing major rigging, or adding a genset or replacing a diesel
> auxilliary. I am thinking I should probably not even consider any
> boat that does not have these things mentioned in the previous
> paragraph, like tankage and rigging. All the other stuff is
> comparatively easy to install or upgrade.
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> Does that all seem like a reasonable ordering of priorities to
> consider while shopping for a world cruising boat? Are there any
> differences between metal boats and fiberglass with respect to things
> like installing extra tankage? I'm very interested in what
> experienced cruisers have to say about this.
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> Thanks for your help.
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