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From: Chuck Morford (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 08:44:19 EDT
I have looked at Gemini and a couple of
Iroquois...
The Gemini are more modern and more expensive,
but the Iroquois seem to offer bang for the buck,
although I think the under deck clearance might
be insufficient for real Blue Water work...
--- Jon Brown <> wrote:
> What would qualify as an affordable/first time
> boat buyer catamaran? or blue water catamaran
> for that matter?
>
> I've long been fond of catamarans, but there
> seems to be a lack cats that fit either or both
> of the above criteria.
>
> -Jon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: who cares
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:53 PM
> Subject: [world-cruising] Re: Choosing a
> cruiser
>
>
> Hi Gregory,
>
> the skippers age in feet is a nice size for a
> yacht ;-)
> (some old british wisdom)
>
> do not know how old you are, but for a little
> comfort I'd start at 33'
> as you write you are planing to go south and
> this is a world-cruising
> board. A little air to breath and room for
> the gadgets in the tropics
> is nice. For us, a mid-50-couple, a Catamaran
> in the 40ies is a right
> size boat. Maybe you find one for a try, be
> sure it is light-weight or
> performance will suffer. We will never go
> back to
> a mono any more, life is just much more
> comfortable on a cat.
>
> Peter
>
> --- In ,
> "Gregory david Stempel"
> <fyrframe at c dot dot dot > wrote:
> > We are currently looking for our FIRST sail
> boat. We aren't ready to
> head
> > for the Azores just yet, so we are
> considering a boat that will give
> us a
> > good foundation from which to begin our
> future in world sailing.
> We'll move
> > up from this point.
> >
> > Are there any boats to stay away from?
> >
> > We are looking at the Hunter line in about
> the late nineties, 30 ft
> range as
> > our first boat, are these good boats?
> >
> > Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Take care,
> > Gregory david Stempel
> > FIREFRAMEi m a g i n g
> > www.americanphotojournalist.com
> > www.soundexposure.org
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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