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02-03-2007, 05:43
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: New Bern, NC
Boat: Prout Manta 38' Catamaran - Sunspot Baby
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Appearance
It is funny how we are affected by the style and/or appearance of our craft.
In another thread, Coyotewrw is looking for an “old fashion” style boat as opposed to a sleek, streamline sloop.
I have personal foibles in the appearance of a particular boat. Some trigger an internal vibration that makes it exhilarating just to look at them. Others I find just plain offensive. Many are somewhere between.
Some modern power yachts, even mega yachts are gone to a style of swooping lines, teardrop windows, etc. that remind me of trendy tennis shoes.
I can’t get past the buttress windows on newer Lagoon catamarans. It looks OK on the power cat, but it just doesn’t say sail boat to me. The older Lagoons were so smooth.
One mans meat is another mans poison I know.
What turns you on or off, or are you one of those concerned only with function?
George
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02-03-2007, 06:17
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Although I do own a kinda staid looking boat and love traditional boats, I do kinda like the look of the Lagoons and also most Trimarans make me go mmmmmmm ..........but doubt if I could ever afford a Lagoon or live with a Trimaran.
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02-03-2007, 06:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lake Champlain, Vermont
Boat: Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - "Raven"
Posts: 213
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Among sailors, the attraction to the form of a boat is probably a close second to the attraction to those of the opposite sex. Perhaps it's genetically ingrained .
Every time I'm headed ashore I find myself looking back at Raven. I feel the tug on the heartstrings. My young sons refer to her as "the prettiest girl at the dance." Of course, that feeling is accentuated by the fact that she sails well and keeps us safe and secure in a storm.
To each, their own, but, for me, that tug at the heartstrings is central to the reasons why I've chosen a life afloat.
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Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - Raven
Burlington, Vermont
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02-03-2007, 07:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Cruising
Boat: Ontario 32 - Aria
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Boats are too expensive to have one you don't enjoy looking at. (Racers excepted) It doesn't really matter "what" about it that grabs you, just that something does. And that will certainly be different things to different people.
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Ontario 32 - "Aria"
Within a dream, we may find a fantasy,
But never within a fantasy, will we live a dream.
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02-03-2007, 07:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Winter land based UK New Forest. Summer months away. Making the transition from sail to power this year - scary stuff.
Boat: Super Van Craft 1320 Power Yacht
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PBzeer
Boats are too expensive to have one you don't enjoy looking at. (Racers excepted) It doesn't really matter "what" about it that grabs you, just that something does. And that will certainly be different things to different people.
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Amen to that one
JOHN
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02-03-2007, 08:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Boat: CSK, 33' Aita Pe'ape'a
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I don't like all the "plumb bows" on monos and multis these days. They all look the same. The flat shear is kinda boring too.
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02-03-2007, 09:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Winter land based UK New Forest. Summer months away. Making the transition from sail to power this year - scary stuff.
Boat: Super Van Craft 1320 Power Yacht
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tnflakbait
I don't like all the "plumb bows" on monos and multis these days. They all look the same. The flat shear is kinda boring too.
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OUCH! Now this close to personal.
I loved plumb bows on first world war warships - and loved it when they returned to fashion on faster yachts. It's why we have one.
But I'd agree if every yacht had one - maybe I'd find them boring - as they truly would look all the same.
IMHO we should all have issues with those old fashioned wooden clunkers who usually leave a long bowsprit overhanging the walkways.
Might look pretty as they sail along, but they can cause a serious headache when one's stumbling back in the dark late Friday night.
What's great is that most places we'll see a huge variety of styles - and for sure - thats better than seeing them all alike.
Have a good weekend
JOHN
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02-03-2007, 09:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lake Champlain, Vermont
Boat: Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - "Raven"
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In Love
Quote:
Originally Posted by swagman
Whats great is that most places let you view a huge variety of styles - and for sure - thats better than seeing them all alike.
Haveagoodweekend
JOHN
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On a similar note, imagine if every woman (or man) seen walking down the streets of a busy city looked alike. We all fall in love (or lust) for different reasons. Boats are no different. What matters is that we are in love - no matter what kind of bow she's got.:kissy:
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Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - Raven
Burlington, Vermont
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02-03-2007, 10:24
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 51,355
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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02-03-2007, 11:11
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
What matters is that we are in love - no matter what kind of bow she's got.:kissy:
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I am more of a "Stern" man myself
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02-03-2007, 11:41
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Marlborough Sounds. New Zealand
Boat: Hartley Tahitian 45ft. Leisure Lady
Posts: 8,038
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Quote:
Among sailors, the attraction to the form of a boat is probably a close second to the attraction to those of the opposite sex.
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So what are saying?? my wife has nice lines but is heavey and slow??? ;-) :-)
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02-03-2007, 12:10
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George, I must confess that I will yield right of way to a beautifully varnished classic all-wood hull every time, even while racing, so I can sit back and enjoy the view.
That doesn't mean I'd want to own, ergh, be enslaved, to one though.<G>
I suppose if I was rich enough to buy everything PLUS beauty, I'd worry about it. Until then, I'd rather be on the boat that just does thing right.
I'd be embarrassed about Plain Butt Ugly, or Hideously Unkempt, but how does that song go? "If you want a happy life, make an ugly woman to marry you" ?
Pretty boats are nice on post cards. Warm, dry, secure, fast, seakindly, blanaced, many other things more important for sailing on 'em though.
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02-03-2007, 12:17
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SW Florida now, then Bahamas and carrib 2010
Boat: Catalina 400
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Wait a second, are you saying there is a manufacturer other than Catalina?? Crap. Knew I should have gone to the boat shows! (smile).
- CD
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02-03-2007, 16:19
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Aloha Hello,
Well put!!
Thanks,
JohnL
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02-03-2007, 22:11
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Vancouver BC
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Oh come now!
I'll agree that bowsprits (or anchors, or pulpits, or over-size dock boxes, or dinghies, or...) over the dock are a harmful menace, but to hate bowsprits themselves?
I love a plumb bowed hooker, with a reasonable bowsprit and boom well over the transom. And I'm equally in love with a graceful knockabout with long overhangs and tiny transom whose purpose, really, is to be a beautiful place to paint the name. A robust workmanlike sloop in fibreglass is a warm spot in my heart, no more or less than than the frighteningly tall racing-racing-dinghies-on-steroids.
I even like a lot of the stinkpots, though I admit to a prejudice against metalic flake and actively oppose the PWCs which are specifically designed to be loud and offensive. But a Trawler, or (a favourite description plagiarised from a friend) a Darth Vader boat, or some of the less ugly winneboatos are all fine in my book.
What is least aesthetic for me is huge expanses of topsides, especially in sailboats. And there are certain modern designs which really over do this, but everyone has a different level of tolerance. I can forgive chromed wind-swept roll bars more than I can 5' of topsides on a sailboat.
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