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Old 10-06-2020, 18:16   #61
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Re: Corsair Tri’s - Coastal Cruising and the odd crossing?

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Always................now you need to do the same and get some experience being on the water.



It will help you here on CF


Now that’s funny!
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Old 10-06-2020, 18:19   #62
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Actually you don't. The Bristol 27 just lays in there nicely. I was talking 12'-20' boat weighing under 400lbs



Listen to the autopilot.......and enjoy the roll. Winds near 30 here just getting started which got me home quickly



Had I been in the ocean the ride would have been even smoother.





That’s very nice, but I would prefer to be on the F31 nicely making 2.5-3 times the speed.
Different strokes for different folks.
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Old 10-06-2020, 18:21   #63
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Always................now you need to do the same and get some experience being on the water.



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Here’s my view this evening.Click image for larger version

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Old 10-06-2020, 18:22   #64
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Trimaran vs. Monohull....horses*for*courses...

Have fun, enjoy the outdoors and like all manufactured things, it is designed for a specific purpose. You will not take a sports car on an overlanding 4x4 trip crossing Africa, so no need to debate it...

My 2 c's

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Old 10-06-2020, 18:29   #65
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Re: Corsair Tri’s - Coastal Cruising and the odd crossing?

The trailerability of an Fboat is definitely nice. In the last 20 years, I've sailed mine in:
The Sea of Cortez multiple times launching in different areas
Numerous trips to and between the channel islands of Southern California
I've trailered it upwind to Monterrey Bay and then sailed back to San Diego, downwind and yes it did blow 30 kts from behind when I rounded Pt. Conception
British Columbia inside passage to Desolation Sound
Lake Powell - that's a weird place to sail, but beautiful
Florida Keys
Bahamas
Lake Ontario
Georgian Bay
North Channel of Lake Huron.
And I know of many other Fboat owners that have done a lot more than me.

As we have all agreed, and as has been stated many times in this thread, the smaller F-boats were not meant to cross oceans. What they are for is fast, light cruising.

Thomm, you seem to have a compulsion to put down multihulls in general and Corsairs in particular, but where have you sailed you Bristol 27? I'm not putting your boat down, the Bristol 27 is a fine craft, but what oceans have you crossed to get to which fantastic cruising grounds? Please enlighten.
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Old 11-06-2020, 11:55   #66
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Belize,

I personally like gunkholing on my F31. A good friend with an F31 prefers sailing marina to marina. To each his own. I've spent about 300 nights, in total, onboard over the last 19 years, most of those at anchor. Other than that, I think your assessment is pretty spot on.

I do have a dodger when I cruise though. That is a comfort going upwind. We didn't have it when we had an experience like yours the one time I've done the LO300. We sailed 100 miles of distance made good, upwind, part of it in 35 kts skirting a t-storm dying down to mid-teens with the expected chop. Racing in that was a long, wet, rough slog.

Overnight, before the T-storm, I had all the crew on the windward float on a close reach. One was a 20 yr old who couldn't stay awake. It was so wet that his auto-inflating PFD fired off. At the time, his response from being asleep to shocked wide awake was really funny.

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At anchor on a nice night, not so bad, plenty of room out on the ama nets, but the aft cabin is a bit coffin like. Where do u normally sleep?

My experience is mostly racing F'boats so I havent spent a lot of time at anchor.

(I had a self-inflate PFD go off on me once, but not on an F'boat. This was in seriously shitty weather in a traditional mono, big winds, big waves, green water over the decks...the full monty. I came off a very wet watch (even with a full dodger)...
was really looking forward to a cup o coffee and some rest. I poured a cup, raised to my lips, and...KABOOM! The jacket fired...lauching the coffee across the cabin...aargh!!!)
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Old 11-06-2020, 12:11   #67
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belizesailor,

I don't mind sleeping in the aft cabin at a dock, but at anchor, I like to sleep in the saloon with bunk boards in. I like to be able to see my chartplotter at night. It is on a swing arm and I put that inside when I sleep. I put a waypoint on the spot were I dropped my anchor then set the chartplotter to navigate to that waypoint. I like to see the track I made while swinging at anchor and the distance to the anchor point.

"was really looking forward to a cup o coffee and some rest. I poured a cup, raised to my lips, and...KABOOM! The jacket fired...lauching the coffee across the cabin...aargh!!!)"

That'll wake you up!
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Never seen that happen. I have a Prindle 18-2 I tow behind a Sprinter van or if I can get my brother to use his Dodge Ram pickup (he is a much better driver than I am). My top speed is 55 and most guys I know with fboats say the same thing; 55 on interstate is only because you really can't go 50. Just as sailing a boat takes skill so does towing a trailer with more than 25 feet of stuff on it.
Tomfl, ha ha. I get your point. But that jingo of “65 mph to weather” is not my saying That was part of Corsairs advertisement campaign. You can see it on YouTube on the F27. If it hasn’t been taken down.

Now this is tongue in cheek Tom... don’t get ruffled... but I am assuming... snicker... when you talk about trucks pulling F31’s.. u are talking about gas engine trucks. Well, Tom, they ain’t trucks. They are vehicles. If a truck ain’t a
Diesel... it ain’t a truck. I have a one ton dually that is chipped and has some serious breathing upgrades. I can pull my larger and heavier Condor 30 at 70 mph with my truck not even noticing it is there.
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Here’s my view this evening.Attachment 217107
How about yours?
I'm about 1 mile from my boat and half a mile from the bay. My boat is between my apartment and work.

The house is between the Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Atlantic Ocean is maybe 6 miles to the East of my apartment

What's your point?

Been there, done that. It gets a bit old and slow after a while doing nothing so you have to come up with other things to keep your brain and body active or both will go to waste.

When I lived on the water along the Gulf Coast, it was racing beach cats, running a
maintenance contract, and raising a 16 year old who had his own Hobie 16. The boats were tied down just above high water

Recently I had to get a computer tech cert in my mid 60's that the young kids have trouble getting because the tests are so hard. You have to learn and be able to apply the knowledge acquired from the 900 page book.

It was great! (but hard and it really taxed my brain and eyes) But it was another accomplishment so it felt great

There's more to life than leisure all the time.

Body and brain exercise is very important
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I'm about 1 mile from my boat and half a mile from the bay. My boat is between my apartment and work.

The house is between the Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Atlantic Ocean is maybe 6 miles to the East of my apartment

What's your point?

Been there, done that. It gets a bit old and slow after a while so you have to come up with other things to keep your brain active.

When I lived on the water along the Gulf Coast, it was racing beach cats, running a
maintenance contract, and raising a 16 year old who had his own Hobie 16. The boats were tied down just above high water

For me that was having to get a computer tech cert in my mid 60's that the young kids have trouble getting.

It was great!

There's more to life than leisure all the time


Seriously? Read your post I quoted, then hopefully you will get my point.
Getting old sucks doesn’t it?
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Old 11-06-2020, 16:29   #71
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Always................now you need to do the same and get some experience being on the water.



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Here thomm, let me help you out. Now maybe you can understand the picture?
I would bore you with my days activities of clipping my toe nails this morning then watching clouds form this afternoon, but I’m sure you have about as much interest in my daily activities as I do yours.
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Since we started cruising full time 3 years ago, I seriously don’t know how we ever had time to work!
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Old 11-06-2020, 17:54   #73
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Re: Corsair Tri’s - Coastal Cruising and the odd crossing?

I would think carrying capacity would be tough on a Corsair for a crossing - they need to be kept light to sail correctly. How would you carry spares, tools, food, water, etc?

Also, if you are singlehanding, I would think a Corsair would be hard to get any kind of sleep in - they need to be managed much more diligently.
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I would think carrying capacity would be tough on a Corsair for a crossing - they need to be kept light to sail correctly. How would you carry spares, tools, food, water, etc?

Also, if you are singlehanding, I would think a Corsair would be hard to get any kind of sleep in - they need to be managed much more diligently.


How many crew do the boats race with? That’s a lot of weight, particularly if you’re in the minimalist mindset, which you should be. They only need to be managed diligently if you’re fully powered up. Reef way down, you’re comfy, still going faster than the monos, and can get rest. Tri’s are among the most seakindly boats out there. Never any pounding, narrow hulls that slice through the waves, very efficient sailing machines. Yes, you have to keep it light, but the funny thing is, we’re always loaning our tools and spare parts to big, heavy monos. Did I mention that on our cruising tri, we can out sail most monos with just our 100% jib out?
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Anyone here with some experience on a Dash 750 for coastal cruising and using for weekend 'water-camping'?

I had a 45ft Jeanneau that I sold, and now feel like something faster to get to the sweet beaching spots quicker, and just hang out for a weekend in some shallow water 'camping'...

I love camping and whilst i loved the luxury of my Jeanneau, it also comes with a huge amount of complexity, and happy for now to swop that for the absolute simplicity of a Dash 750 for quick hop on, hop off weekend closeby...
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