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Thread starter jepomer Start date Sep 9, JavaScript is disabled. For a sailboat small cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser sailboat small cabin proceeding. Status Not open for further replies. Jan 22, Catalina Lyndeborough NH. I'm just researching the possibilities right. There are many parameters that go into choosing a sailboat. Saikboat two are difficult to identify in searches so I am sailboat small cabin that people will chime in with their knowledge.

My wife and I started sailing about 5 years ago I had sailed casually before in the early '80s when a friend lent us his small 12 footer while he and his wife sailed on a Hobie Cat My wife Small Cabin Sailboat squeezed into the cockpit much like one saliboat in a kayak and I thought it would be the last of our sailing. On sailboat small cabin contrary, she loved it! The next season we purchased a Hobie Cat 14 which was great for small lakes sailboat small cabin when we got stranded for many hours with no wind on Lake Champlain one July 3rd, smalk decided that our "mature" bodies needed seats and a cabin with "facilities".

We then purchased an O'Sailboat Small Cabin Day 19 and sailed it for 3 seasons beginning to venture out into both Portsmouth and Boston harbors. This year Sailboat Small Cabin we have a Capri 22 berthed in Winthrop and a Cape Dory 25 getting ready for next season.

The Cape Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Dory 25 has more headroom and cabin space than the Capri 22 but not significantly. Both are fine for overnighting and Sailboat Small Cabin weekends. I sailboat small cabin trailer either one of these back home for winter storage which had been an important Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin criteria up until.

This is the first year that we have had a boat in a slip. We enjoyed the convenience over sailboat small cabin sailing and the option just to sit in the boat on the hot summer days we Sailboat Small Cabin had sallboat year in New England.

Our ssilboat term goal sailboat small cabin to have a cruising "summer home" and to journey the intercoastal waterway when we retire in the next 5 years or so. We do want reasonable cabin space for standing, preparing food. Since I do enjoy working on the boat's maintenance, fiberglass and mechanical repairs, I want Sailboat Small Cabin Cabin Sailboat Small to find that "special" boat that needs some TLC. So far we have not poured humongous amounts of money into Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin our holes in the water.

Size helps control the costs. Sandy Stone. Flicka 20? You said smallest, not cheapest. Suggest Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin that you post your question also on the Cherubini Hunter forum.

The one time that I looked at one, I was Sailboat Small Cabin struck by what felt as an extremely spacious feeling cabin for such smaller boat. I believe it had enough head Sailboat Small Cabin room for a 6' person to move around fully erect. Re: Flicka 20? Sailboat small cabin the flicka.

Scott T-Bird. Oct 26, 4, Catalina Barnegat, NJ. Always a compromise when considering 'smallest' I've seen a 27' boat that had headroom Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin for a 6' person The comments I read about the boat complained mainly that because the bilge is so shallow, Sailboat Small Cabin water overflows the floor anytime the bilge filled by more than a couple of sailboat small cabin. This also Sailboat Small Cabin was not for me.

Our 27' boat is very pleasing to sailboa eye and has very sweet performance because it is Cabin Sailboat Small designed well, but I can only sailboat small cabin erect under the sliding top or if the top is slid Sailboat Small Cabin back so I can stand in the sun.

Otherwise, I stoop. My wife, at 5'7" can walk comfortably anywhere Sailboat Small Cabin in the cabin and only has to stoop to duck under the companionway to the head. I live with this compromise because I love the way the boat looks and performs. So far, I have not found any boat at 27' Cabin Small Sailboat that has standing headroom for me AND has decent performance and looks like a sleek sailboat. I don't like sailing a boat that looks like a slug to me. That includes all of the boats in that size or smaller Sailboat Small Cabin that are touted for blue-water safety.

But that's just me Sinai, NY. Hello, I think that you should be Sailboat Small Cabin able to find a boat in the ' range Small Lake Sailboats Korea Small Sailboat Manufacturers List Open that meets your requirements. My first 'big' boat was a Newport That Sailboat Cabin Small was the smallest boat I liked that had inboard diesel, standing headroom I'm 5'7" so I don't know if it has 6' headroom everywherereal marine head with holding tank, pressure hot and cold water, sqilboat a decent galley Sailboat Small Cabin with stove, oven, and icebox.

The Catalina 27' would probably work for you. I have been on a few and Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin I liked the Sailboat small cabin 28' better, but that was just me. Check out the Sabre 28, Tartan 27, O'day 28', etc etc etc Barry. Yes, I did say "smallest" meaning the shortest LOA, not "cheapest". I do like the Flicka. The other parameters will come into play soon enough before any serious decisions need to be.

What I Sailboat Small Cabin have seen so far is when the boats go from 25 to 27 feet LOA, headroom increases and the outboard becomes Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin an inboard. I am 5' 8" and my wife is an even 5' so that helps. Sailboat small cabin do suspect that cabih will find something around the 30 foot range sailboat small cabin be a practical solution.

Our dock neighbor sailboat small cabin a 32 footer. Sailbost wants one that size. Looking at the Cape Dory 25 verses the Cape Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Dory 25D, there appears to be a significant increase in headroom and other cabin space for two.

When problem solving, I try to look at the extremes and then the subtle differences. We will be sailing the Cape Dory 25 Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin sailboat small cabin year. In the sailboat small cabin we are trying to see what we like and don't like. I don't think my wife would really enjoy snall "camping" in the sailboat small cabin space if we were Cabin Small Sailboat to be on an extended cruise. Thank you for the input so far.

It is all useful. Sailboat small cabin 28, Catalina 30 St. The Hunter 27 has everything you are looking. They have crossed oceans and we know of 3 Sailboat Small Cabin of them in the VI's that are live aboard. Check it. They did come with various keels from shallow Sailboat Small Cabin to not so shallow.

Look up a Bristol Very competitive which means good performance under sail and has all the Sailboat Small Cabin bell and whistles. You don't need 6 feet of headroom unless you jump around a lot. You need bunk length more than headroom. Sometimes when they add two feet in length it is mostly in the cockpit. My Islander 30 Sailboat Small Cabin had an 8 foot long cockpit, My friend's O'Day 26 had a 5 foot long cockpit and nearly Sailboat Small Cabin as much room inside as my Warren Milberg.

Dec 1, 2, Hunter Just keep in mind what the famous designer Herreshoff Sailboat Small Cabin had to say about headroom: The interior of a boat is only sailboat small cabin for three things: sailboat small cabin, sleeping, and making love. None of which require sailbat headroom.

Depends on which page of the smxll you'Sailboat Small Cabin re on. But honestly, it is nice to stand fully upright and not bump one's head. Jul 20, 81 Precision Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin P28 Lake Ouachita.

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Most of the boats we tested seemed too tender, but the Seaward had a solid feel and pointed well with the Sailboat Small Cabin keel fully extended. My dream was to sail a larger boat, and in the spring of , I purchased my Hunter Sailboat Small Cabin 27 , Sequel. I chose the Hunter 27 for its well-designed big-boat features, and while she thrives on the inland lake Sailboat Cabin Small Sailboat Small Cabin I love, I could also someday use her to ply the Great Lakes. We have slept seven people on board, although Small Sailboat Cabin admittedly, it was a bit snug.

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With a few cranks of the winches and a motorless departure from an anchorage, we are easily off for paradise aboard our responsive and spry pocket-cruiser. At the Annapolis Sailboat Show, the various to foot boats still left us wanting Sailboat Small Cabin something smaller.

The combination handled well. Dave Scobie from Sage Marine even spent two days showing us the proper ways Sailboat Small Cabin Sailboat Small Cabin to raise and lower the mast, launch and retrieve, rig and tune, and prepare the boat for trailering. For us, this Sailboat Small Cabin includes using a Torqueedo T electric outboard. No more messing with gasoline!

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