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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 08:55:32 EDT
Hi Jon,
I think many cats are capable of blue water cruising, Jeanneaus and Beneteaus come to mind. It's just on how you set them up.
Here's an article about sailing a cat 2,000 miles from Brazil to Trinidad.
http://www.sailnet.com/collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=baldwi0009
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From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of Jon Brown
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:18 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Re: Choosing a cruiser
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
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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
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