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From: cirejay (no email)
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 12:16:02 EDT
--- In , "Peter Pisciotta"
<pete_pisc at dot dot dot > wrote:
>
> actually) and have never looked back, though I still spend several
> days offshore each year on a sailboat.
I've spent several days offshore at various times in powerboats as
well as sail and numerous days offshore in sail but not power. It's
the numerous that we're comparing here.
> As far as cost, one post compared $7000 for sails versus
Idlewild's
> $20,000 for fuel. Perhaps, but sailors generally run their engine
> quite a bit so there's still fuel cost on top of sails. And for a
> comparably sized sailboat, spars, sails, rigging, running rigging,
> wind instruments, winches, poles, furlers, etc. add-up really
fast -
> I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see a ~55-foot sailboat have $10K-
> $15K in 2/3-speed ST winches alone (more if there's a spinnaker
> setup), and another $1000 or more in sheets/halyards. Given the
total
> cost of ownership, the operating difference between the two is
> probably negligible,
Well, yes but. One can Safely go cruising off soundings, not just
offshore in a small (less than 30') sailboat without 3 speed ST
winches etc. without it being considered a stunt. I grew up on
powerboats - yes, my son is named after a stink potter:-) - and I'm
not sure one could say the same for a trawler of the same size.
>it just comes down to personal taste and
> preference and where a cruiser is willing to take risk: because
> sailing involves an elevated level of exposed, physical deck-work,
> there's a bit more risk of personal injury aboard a sailboat. On a
> powerboat, the risk is mechanical failure.
Ok, so you're telling us that the risk of spending 3 days in 20'
seas on a powerboat is "mechanical failure" and on a sailboat
it's "personal injury". I don't think so.
> Just depends on what you're comfortable with.
Yep, and I'm not comfortable rolling my guts out for days on end:-)
> Just a different perspective but the goal is the same: love of the
> ocean and adventure.
On that we can agree. Amen brother!
BTW, I just got back from seeing the Volvos off from City Dock and
watched a re-run of the race on PBS yesterday. Now that's the way
to go 'cruising'
eric S/V Nebaras
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