Analyzing Your Boat Needs - resources for cruising sailors

How to choose, especially large used sailboats

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Personal resource list By Bill Dietrich

Grab bag of advice from many sources on what makes the right boat for you. Sections include Research, Intended Use, General Choices, and Boat Models. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.

[Bill Dietrich, USA]
- Choosing a cruising sailboat

What's the Best Cruising Boat?

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Personal Website

This FAQ contains a discussion of the quality, size, new-or-used, building-material, teak-or-no-teak, sailing rig, mono-vs-multi, center-cockpit-vs.-aft, and other decisions a boat buyer faces. Contains basic information about cruising equipment.

[Amazing.com, Monongahela, PA, USA]
- Choosing the best cruising boat

The Ideal Cruiser - a BoatDesign.Net thread

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Private site

A member has challenged others to imagine the ideal "long-range cruising sailboat with live-aboard capacities, not too big to be unaffordable." The responses are interesting.

[Boat Design Net, Beaver Island, MI, USA]
- The ideal cruiser thread

Dare To Be Different - Unusual Cruising Craft

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By Michel & Jane DeRidder Dare To Be Different - Unusual Cruising Craft

A 40-year-liveaboard couple talk about cruisers they know who have tried out their own ideas when it comes to their choice of a cruising home. Photos of six examples.

[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
- Unusual cruising boat designs

Choosing an Affordable Offshore Cruising Boat

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Yacht Designer By John Holtrop

Applying a formula to his databank of 1,100 monohull sailboats, the author comes up with a list of the Best Sailing Cruisers Under $100,000.

[John Holtrop, Ridgecrest, CA, USA]
- The Best Cruising Sailboats

Multihull Sailboats forum

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Non-commercial forum

A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes specializing in catamarans and trimarans.

[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
- The multihull forum

Monohull Sailboats forum

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Non-commercial forum

A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes, focused on specific boat designs.

[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
- The monohull forum

Buying a Cruising Yacht - Options

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By Nick Bowles

Short article taking you through the basic decisions you need to make when buying a cruising sailboat. The author gives you his advice on each.

[Blue Moment, USA]
- Buying a cruising sailboat

Buying Your Offshore Cruising Yacht

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Seminar

Baty conducts a seminar on choosing an offshore cruising sailboat. She also is a yacht broker specializing in clients who are trying to determine their needs.

[Jillian A. Baty, Oakland, CA, USA]
- Choosing an offshore cruising boat
- Some boat buying tips