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From: Harry James (no email)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 15:41:40 EST
Have you tried
Go to the advanced search, you can narrow it down to the west coast. If
you put in sailboat 28-32 you will probably get a hundred hits.
HJ
Dave_Benjamin wrote:
>Hi all,
>Just thought I'd throw out an introduction. There's a good chance I
>might know a few on the list.
>Wife and I are former liveaboards and coastal cruiser types that
>swallowed the hook in 2001 and bought some dirt in Oregon with a
>square wooden structure on it. Yep a house, land, the whole 9 yards.
>It was kind of cool the first year or so. Got to buy some new tools
>and spread out a bit.
>Second year I was really missing sailing so I tried the small boat
>thing. All sailing is fun but a 15 footer on a lake, albeit a pretty
>mountain lake, is always going to be a 15 footer on a lake. I grew up
>sailing on small boats so I'm not knocking it.
>Now it been 3.5 years. Not having a proper cruising boat has become
>an intolerable situation. So it was time to get a boat.
>We just had a deal fall through on a Tartan 30. It was just too
>neglected and needed too much work and was too far away. Had it been
>closer and the owner a bit more negotiable I would have enjoyed the
>project.
>So I'm in the hunt for something in the 30 foot range. Boat will be
>homeported near San Francisco but shopping from Seattle south. We'll
>look at a few prospects in Seattle next weekend.
>
>Generally I've always preferred the traditional layouts with 78"+
>settees and a centerline table. One of the boats we may look at has a
>dinette on one side and the galley stretched on the other. I've never
>liked that setup but the boat has a lot of things going for it. It
>was refit for cruising and appears to be ready to go back again. All
>the expensive prep has already been done and she appears at least in
>the photos to be well set up and cared for. It has quarter berths
>that would probably work out OK as sea berths. Aside from the trip
>down the west coast we probably won't have too many extended
>passages. One thing I do worry about is using the galley underway.
>Our last boat, Freedom ketch, had the proper cruising galley where
>you could wedge yourself in. On this other boat the only thing I can
>think of is one of those galley straps.
>
>Anybody want to comment on these issues please fire away.
>
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>
>
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