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The authors give detailed, wide-ranging and savvy advice on choosing a sailboat for serious cruising, including comments on the real costs of a used boat, geographic pricing differences, design aspects to be avoided, construction details. Includes an annotated list of boat candidates.
[Mahina Tiare Expeditions, Friday Harbor, WA, USA]
This builder′s website contains several articles about boat design and choosing a boat that explain the company′s choice of designs. Item-by-item analysis with emphasis is on traditional design virtues.
[Sam L. Morse Company, Costa Mesa, CA, USA]
All the reasons why you will enjoy a smaller boat more than a larger one. The author gives credit to some counter-arguments as well.
[SailNet, 2 June 2004]
The author offers to review your (and your partner′s separate) answers to this quiz and give you her thoughts on what kind of cruising boat may suit you.
[Take Her Sailing, Cypress, TX, USA]
Common sense guidelines, but worth reading to remind yourself at a stage in cruising life when your heart can outvote your head. Includes a refresher on performance measurements.
[SailNet, 15 April 2004]
A forum thread. One participant asks how she can tell a boat that′s suitable for blue-water sailing. The result is a thoughtful discussion of boat qualities, with a number of specific boats mentioned. Size, displacement, cockpit location, layout
[Blue Water Sailing, Middletown, RI, USA]
One couple′s list of guidelines in searching for their cruising sailboat. Covers items that are integral to a boat selection as well as some that can be added after the purchase.
[Bill Dillon and Pat Watt, USA]
A author looked down on a harbor full of modern cruisers and noticed . . . They all had three things in common! This sent him off to take a survey. Here are the results.
[SailNet, 17 November 2003]
A look at the decisions six cruising couples made before they first set off and the ways they′ve changed their minds about their boats and all they carry. Lots more details in the print version.
[Cruising World, June 2004]
A couple who have completed at 10,000-mile tour of the Pacific on a 31-foot cutter talk about what their perfect boat would be and what equipment it would carry. A preview: it′s big.
[Ken Machtley / Cathy Siegismund, Redmond, WA, USA]
A small boat and a suitcase full of money beats a 40-footer tied to the Bank every time.
Rick Kennerly
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