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Old 29-10-2018, 20:57   #16
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Re: I'm Bored!

Or get a moth and try something completely different if you can’t wait
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Old 29-10-2018, 23:42   #17
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Have a yarn to Cruiserchik34, she staves off boredom by overhauling her engine and painting it purple. Perhaps you could buy the engines first and overhaul and repaint them in your garage??
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Old 30-10-2018, 03:28   #18
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Re: I'm Bored!

You can still learn a lot with the boat you have.

I've had my 27' sailboat for 7 years and raced 4 different beach cats for 15 years before buying that boat and I'm still learning the boat I have now, but I am now sailing in a place where the wind, sea, current, and tide are much stronger than when I sailed the beach cats in Tennessee and Florida/Mississippi Gulf Coast

As was mentioned, you can race or just sail in stronger winds. I had to reef for the first time all year on Sunday while day sailing and that was quite interesting.

It was nice to see the boat come back to an easily controlled situation after reefing the main and furling the jib in a bit

You could work on/set up a simple self steering system like Webb Chiles uses. He is/was sailing RTW on a 24' racing boat (Moore 24). Looks like your O'Day 22 is heavier than the Moore 24 by 600 lbs

https://www.cruisingworld.com/simple-self-steering

You could sail as if you have no engine all the way out and back in.
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Old 30-10-2018, 04:48   #19
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sell the boat, get on some crewing websites,you will learn far more useful stuff crewing on bigger boats off shore in preparation for eventually taking off on your own boat.
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