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28-12-2012, 19:34
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#31
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Now on the Dark Side: Stink Potter.
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Palm Coast, Florida
Boat: Sea Hunt 234 Ultra
Posts: 3,962
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Here is your boat, turn-key, ready to sail, $55K
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29-12-2012, 05:06
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 116
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
I have a nicely restored ready to go Cape Dory 31 if you might be interested.
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29-12-2012, 11:34
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: new jersey
Posts: 10
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
Hey guys..Im shopping as well..any opinions on the hunter 35.5 legend?? thanks..
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29-12-2012, 12:17
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#34
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,364
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
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Originally Posted by jason_bradbury
Hey guys..Im shopping as well..any opinions on the hunter 35.5 legend?? thanks..
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I know nothing about a 35.5, but look here:
HunterOwners.com
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29-12-2012, 21:10
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#36
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,822
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
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Originally Posted by boatman61
Swiss friends of mine bought a Hunter Legend in the Carib... they've since sailed it to the Med and then back across and are currently in S.America...
Not saying its a great boat... but it gets around just fine...
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Ummmm its not a great boat but its got them half way round the world.
What more do you want? A bath tub? Oh, the Hunter 50 has that.
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29-12-2012, 21:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Louisville, KY.
Boat: Endeavour 42
Posts: 118
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
My Endeavour 40 landed me a beautiful girlfriend who became a wonderful wife. Took her sailing for a year and half in the Carib on a clean, roomy, comfortable, safe boat. Lot's of opening ports and hatches. Lots of water. Plenty of shade. Cold refrig=cold beer=happy crew. When shopping I read a lot of advice in books about buying a cruising boat. The best advice was, when buying, remember that you will spend approx 90% of your time on the hook. Buy a boat suited for the mission. P.S. Just listed my boat on the Forum.
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29-12-2012, 22:00
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#38
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Punta De Mita
Boat: Vagabond 39 Hull # 1
Posts: 1,842
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
Easy to talk bad about Hunters but they are, in California and Pacific Mexico, the most cruised boats that I've seen. Probably 3-4 times as many Hunters cruising than anything else besides Catalinas, another much maligned name. What's better, a full keeled heavy bluewater cruiser rotting on a mooring ball or a deficient by many accounts Hunter that's cruising?
I have a heavy full keeled bluewater cruiser but I don't see what's so bad about Hunters. They don't point? Mine doesn't either. They break? They all break something sometime. They can't all be sinking because I see them everywhere.
Everybody loves their boat, whatever it is and everybody hates something about their boat too. It's just like a mate, you gotta find a set of problems you can deal with.
I like that 52' Irwin.
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29-12-2012, 23:39
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central California
Boat: Samson C Mist 32
Posts: 680
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
I've sailed on two Irwin 52s from the Caribbean to the East Coast. Kind of a floating apartment house. I don't recommend it as a sea boat.
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30-12-2012, 07:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Mystic, CT/Key West, FL
Boat: Catalina C-400 Mk II
Posts: 6
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
Nice plan Monteverde. I hope this sailing adventure works out for you. I hope to do the same trip soon. For what it worth, I just returned from 3 lovely weeks in Aruba. I hope you get to sail there. I was talking to several lifelong natives of the island who informed me of the current political climate in Venezuela. In one word it can be describe as "dangerous." Definitely talk to cruisers who have sailed through the area before you go but based on what I was told, I will avoid Venezuela (as much as I would love to sail down to Lake Maracaibo). Safe travels.
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30-12-2012, 14:18
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil
Posts: 223
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
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Originally Posted by monteverde
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They don't exist. My Chick Magnet has been always an invitation for a 3 month Holiday in Holland, Germany, France finished with a Topless beach holiday in Spain.
Now, 59 y/o I married the most beautifull wife from Brazil.
BTW she hates my boat, still my big second love..
CeesH
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31-12-2012, 15:18
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#44
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 17
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
Boatman61. That Hunter 37.5 has the right look to it. Big enough. Looks fun and inviting. And apparently safe to cruise the Caribbean in. I think it is very similar to the one that I looked at. Thank you.
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31-12-2012, 15:36
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#45
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,140
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Re: Sailboat for a few years in the Caribbean for two
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Originally Posted by daddle
You want to attract chicks? Or keep one? To attract chicks save your money, spend it in the bars ashore. The boat won't matter. It will be dark, it will be late, judgement will be lost. Event the Tayana will work.
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LOL. Good advice. Reminds me of a line in Rupert Holmes audio play Psychodrama
"You can't buy love but, it is possible to rent it at times."
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