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08-03-2015, 10:53
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Palm Coast Florida
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Better to look or actually own and do?
Ok - here goes. Have been on smallish 28' sailboats on inland lakes and really did not like it...too much healing on that size boat.
Now - as I watch sailing on youtube I am thinking I would like it. I have always liked the water. As I play scenarios through my minds eye reality sets in.
Being 'stuck' on a sailboat during a bad thunderstorm with a lot of lightning, making passages, always being tired, big water, getting beat by the sun, corrosive salt water, things breaking all the time, sinking, rudder issues, sail rips,
Watching 'All is Lost', getting rolled etc.etc.
So...better to look or actually own?
I
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08-03-2015, 11:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FLORIDA
Boat: Alden 50, Sarasota, Florida
Posts: 2,582
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Isn't asking such a q on a site populated by nothing but boat owners kind of predictable?
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08-03-2015, 11:10
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Join Date: Sep 2014
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
As long as you have a bluewater deep fryer on board you should be allright in any storm.
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08-03-2015, 11:32
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: daytona beach florida
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
"It is better to travel hopefully then to arrive".
Anybody remember who wrote that?
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08-03-2015, 12:00
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Boot Key Marathon Fl
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by tuffr2
Being 'stuck' on a sailboat during a bad thunderstorm with a lot of lightning, making passages, always being tired, big water, getting beat by the sun, corrosive salt water, things breaking all the time, sinking, rudder issues, sail rips,
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Many of us don't like a lot of those things, yet we still have boats!
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08-03-2015, 20:49
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Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by tuffr2
Being 'stuck' on a sailboat during a bad thunderstorm with a lot of lightning, making passages, always being tired, big water, getting beat by the sun, corrosive salt water, things breaking all the time, sinking, rudder issues, sail rips,
Watching 'All is Lost', getting rolled etc.etc.
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So what's the bad part here?
(Oh, yeah. I remember. All is Lost sucked...)
Quote:
Originally Posted by tuffr2
Now - as I watch sailing on youtube I am thinking I would like it. I have always liked the water. As I play scenarios through my minds eye reality sets in.
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Just keep watching it on YouTube. It's a lot easier and it's basically the same thing as going outside...
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08-03-2015, 21:20
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 898
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by tuffr2
Ok - here goes. Have been on smallish 28' sailboats on inland lakes and really did not like it...too much healing on that size boat.
Now - as I watch sailing on youtube I am thinking I would like it. I have always liked the water. As I play scenarios through my minds eye reality sets in.
Being 'stuck' on a sailboat during a bad thunderstorm with a lot of lightning, making passages, always being tired, big water, getting beat by the sun, corrosive salt water, things breaking all the time, sinking, rudder issues, sail rips,
Watching 'All is Lost', getting rolled etc.etc.
So...better to look or actually own?
I
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There are always two ways to approach any situation. What some might find to be a confining prison, others find to be freedom.
Three important things to think about :
1) Had Redford gone to sea in a '72 Boston Whaler he'd still be on the boat.
2) Doesn't sinking come after rudder issues and sail rips?
3) Don't pay more than 50% of a seller's asking price for your boat, because you might very well slam head-long into a wayward shipping container.
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08-03-2015, 21:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Chicago
Boat: Alden auxiliary ketch 48'
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
===Ok - here goes. Have been on smallish 28' sailboats on inland lakes and really did not like it...too much healing on that size boat ===
Ok - here goes. I have been sailing on a smallish 28' sailboat on inland lakes for 52 years.
I, too, have been healed, but "too much healing"? How is that possible?
I like the idea of you watching youtube videos of other people sailing, altho you may still need a puke bucket. It's just a lot more safe to remain indoors.
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08-03-2015, 22:09
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cowichan Bay, BC (Maple Bay Marina)
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
How do get healed from too much heeling?
That list are the GOOD things, right?
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09-03-2015, 01:13
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Senior Cruiser

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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
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Originally Posted by Ex-Calif
Just keep watching it on YouTube. It's a lot easier and it's basically the same thing as going outside... 
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Only if you are watching YouTube while standing under a cold shower tearing up $100 bills
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09-03-2015, 06:43
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Moderator

Join Date: Feb 2014
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
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Originally Posted by StuM
Only if you are watching YouTube while standing under a cold shower tearing up $100 bills 
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coffee splutter. 
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09-03-2015, 06:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Chicago
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by StuM
Only if you are watching YouTube while standing under a cold shower tearing up $100 bills 
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yep
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09-03-2015, 07:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: WY / Currently in Hayes VA on the Chesapeake
Boat: Ocean Alexander, Ocean 44
Posts: 1,132
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Buy an RV and carry a canoe to play in the water.
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09-03-2015, 07:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: UK, Indonesia
Boat: Hallberg Rassy
Posts: 15
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
not owning a boat = A boat in port is safe, but that's not what boats are built for.
if you do not dare to sail the oceans - others will :-)
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09-03-2015, 07:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Boat: Challenger 32 1974
Posts: 495
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Re: Better to look or actually own and do?
Buy a Hobie 16 with trailer,
Feel the joy,
Be in the bar when the thunderstorm comes
Bill
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