Circunavigation Let's get real and rough

[Bluevelvet]

Hi if you can live with legs again for drying out the ideal yacht with all your requirements is lying near Glasgow Scotland. Dudley Dix 35 pratique in steel, been around once and not needing much to go again. Very well built,foam sprayed,all joinery removable.Keenly for sale at £23000. Not my yacht but I owned it for seven years

[KatMarine]

I have been doing the same research as you. In this question the statistics of your boat are most important to know.

I would go for a full keel, 200+ displacement to LOA ratio and a sail area rating of 17 and up.

Good article here: Understand your boat and her statistics

The Global race boats above match these stats.

Good luck!

[reed1v]

Any and all boats have sailed around the world. There is no perfect boat; nor is there any unsuitable boat. Logs have sailed thousands of miles. Cal 20s have circumnavigated. Go with what you can afford and feel comfortable with.

We did it in an old westsnail 43 eons ago. It was suitable for a family with kids and could be single handed. For third world exploration it was perfect. Nowadays if we had megabucks would go with a twin keeled aluminum sled.

Our friends have gone around the world in a 93 foot mega yacht. Would not be our style but it suited them. On the other hand, we met a couple that did it on a dana 24 with no problems. Enjoy. A blind man circumnavigated. World is round. Not a problem.

[asiapt]

Originally Posted by gmakhs

Allow me to disagree with you , the reason that i can sail on those seas with confidence is because i always listen and get advises and experience from other sailors , some advices are good some are bad , but there is only "gaining in this procedure no losing "

I would agree with that also.

[OceanSeaSpray]

Originally Posted by gmakhs

Miura is pretty similar to mine , i believe is not capable for my intends of use , but looks like a nice boat!!!!!!
I love the skeg transform hugging rudder , one of the best i have seen on GRP boats.
As it seems fo now i am closing to a Koopmans or Ovni design, koopmans are closer to my budget.

This is the route of an old 30' production fibreglass sloop.

Fin keel and bulb, sturdy, but it had a decent boom and mainsail when the Miura was crippled by the IOR rule.

There is a world of difference between a 26' and these 30', believe me.

[straightman21]

Originally Posted by Bluevelvet

Hi if you can live with legs again for drying out the ideal yacht with all your requirements is lying near Glasgow Scotland. Dudley Dix 35 pratique in steel, been around once and not needing much to go again. Very well built,foam sprayed,all joinery removable.Keenly for sale at £23000. Not my yacht but I owned it for seven years

Hi, where is this one advertised please?

[gmakhs]

Thank you again for your advises , I have a lot of links to study