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From: cirejay (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 18:30:01 EDT
--- In , "bessyboop2000"
<bessyboop2000 at y dot dot dot > wrote:
> The morgan o/i I am looking at is a 33, single handling a 41 is a
bit
> tooo much for me being a 5'2 and 1/2. the link Includes a 33 O/I
in
> it's sale section which I cut and pasted but as most things go no
> short cuts in life and link brings you to the main page...
> Thanks for all your input. Bet you'll be glad that I sold the
hunter
> 30 and buy my next dream and sit down and shut up!!!
Darn it Bess, what are you planning to do with the boat? Do you plan
to put as much time/$$$$$$$/effort as you did into the hunter? I
could jump in and tell you right off that there is no way that I
would buy that Morgan but that accomplishes nothing. I'm heading
out to the high latitudes next year so the type of boat I have is
not relevant unless that is what you are planning also.
Now, if I were planning to spend the next few years living aboard in
the Bahamas, sipping pina colotas, the Morgan might be on my short
list for an inexpensive (and built to stay that way) boat. And,
that gets us back to the next subject, are you going to do another
complete refit? It costs just as much to refit that Morgan as it
costs to refit a Hallberg Rassy, or a Sabre or Tartan, or Pacific
Seacraft, etc; maybe more, but when you're done you still have a
Morgan.
My son is a live aboard on Spa creek, here in Annapolis. When he
was looking, this past summer, I suggested a number of inexpensive,
roomy 30 footers such as Hunters and Catalina's. He decided on an
Alberg 30 because he wanted a `go anywhere' boat even if he wasn't
going to leave for a few years or even ever. I'm not sure that I
agreed with his thinking for a first boat to live aboard but I do
know that a lot of thought went into what he planned to do with the
boat. Boats are vehicles, physical and metaphysical. "Sailing
takes me away to where I want to be"
Darn, this sounds too much like a blogJ
eric S/V Nebaras
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