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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

It is interesting to note that the images of the boat with the green awning in your post (for reference - click the carat next to thomm225's username in the title of the thread quote here for a...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

11-02-2020, 21:40

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Great post. Thanks for the detail and insight. I will dig through your details as I get time.

Correction - I used arbitrary numbers to make an illustration where the ratios/percentages...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

11-02-2020, 10:34

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Thanks for the thoughts. Most of my research has been online, the vast majority, but not all.

Good point - and yes when I get the opportunity to check some out as I get up to my...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

11-02-2020, 10:24

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Thanks for your well-explained post.

I know there are physics involved in sailboat design. I am admittedly not up to speed on all of the details - enough to keep on learning though. As others...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 18:49

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Jim and Don -

Thank you for your comments.

Please see my thread from last year below - trailer launching a sailboat has been considered. There is another link in there (in post #10 of the...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 15:15

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Uh oh. I probably shouldn't have opened that thread...

Post # 19 - "canting" trailer = roll the boat over.

Going back to "beam width" being the number that reflects "width" in...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 14:32

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

I assume its this one:

https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f47/trailerable-blue-ocean-exists-193354.html

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 13:33

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Thanks for chiming in!

See post #13, answer to A:

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 13:21

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

I don't have a specific number at the moment. That is also something I am trying to form. There are a lot of considerations to the "budget" number because condition and amount of work required factor...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 12:33

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

A. 8-8.5’ beam
To roll down the road on a trailer.

I'd rather have a boat under dimensions that would be questionable for permit territory. Overall width is the easiest one to hit with a...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 11:32

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

As I am researching and asking questions - hence the thread - please do explain what you mean.

To illustrate why I ask the question - go back to my 2nd point about wanting wheel steer due to...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

10-02-2020, 08:26

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Cruise capable, smaller boats?

Another thought - since this forum covers people around the world...

I am in the continental US. So that is the market I am looking in to.

Sailing locations:
- Hence my username - great...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

09-02-2020, 21:39

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Cruise capable, smaller boats?

I've been going through some online listings just to see whats out there for boats. Maybe what I'm looking for just doesn't exist.

What I'm looking for is a boat like a Hunter, Classic, or...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

02-02-2020, 23:03

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Hunter 27, trailering, etc

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Hunter 27, trailering, etc

Thread bump to refresh

01-02-2020, 08:39

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Trailer launching sailboat

Gotcha now.

Yeah, the boat I was using the dolly with loaded is probably a good 1000-1500 lbs. The boat alone (aluminum) is about 600, motor is 320. Then add gear and fuel tanks. Though that...

31-01-2020, 21:35

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Trailer launching sailboat

I think Large is a relative term. If it can be pulled with a conventional large pickup (DOT class III or under, thats a 1 ton dually, class II is a 3/4-1 ton with singles) I wouldn't consider a boat...

Forum: Monohull Sailboats

31-01-2020, 15:44

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Hunter 27, trailering, etc

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Hunter 27, trailering, etc

Hi all,

I've been thinking about getting a sailboat for years. I sail with friends on the great lakes. There are 2 boats, one is in the water and is what we've worked on the past several...

31-01-2020, 08:22

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Posted By GreatLakeSailor

Re: Trailer launching sailboat

See the link in the post above for pictures towards the end of it in use - that is at the mid-length level (15ft - 2 of the 4 center frame extensions).

The launch it was used with in the...

30-01-2020, 12:07

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