The boat you own....
Once you become acustomed to making passages, you can move some substantial
distances in relitatively short times. Our experience mirrors Peter's. We
were exactly 30 days from the Virgin Islands to San Diego....acouple of days
in Panama (not do-able currently due to back up of pleasure boats)--and a day
in Acapulco and a day in Cabo.
There are lots of 40 foot boats which can make and have made these trips.
Grand Bank's 36's have gone up and down the entire coast. With all respect to
GB, owners, this would not be my first choice, but no problem. I cruised from
Long Beach to Cabo and up North as far as San Franscisco in a 29 foot sailboat
with a small gas engine in the early 60's. It was slow--but something which
was reasonable. It is as much the preparation as the boat. On the other
hand, I took care of one fellow who built a Wharram Catamaran, cruised down to
Mexico, and almost died because the boat fell apart on the way back up the
coast. Fortunately he was found by fisherman and brought back to shore.
Bob Austin
Bob,
I hope you don't mind me contacting you offline. We have been contemplating
upgrading from our Scout 30 to a GB36 with a single diesel. We like the GB
mainly because of it's classic triditional look & reputation for quality.
What's the downside? Hard chine? Limited size?
Thanx for any info,
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob Austin" thataway4@cox.net
To: peter@seaskills.com; "Passage under power"
passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:28 PM
Subject: [PUP] The boat you own....
Once you become acustomed to making passages, you can move some substantial
distances in relitatively short times. Our experience mirrors Peter's. We
were exactly 30 days from the Virgin Islands to San Diego....acouple of days
in Panama (not do-able currently due to back up of pleasure boats)--and a
day
in Acapulco and a day in Cabo.
There are lots of 40 foot boats which can make and have made these trips.
Grand Bank's 36's have gone up and down the entire coast. With all respect
to
GB, owners, this would not be my first choice, but no problem. I cruised
from
Long Beach to Cabo and up North as far as San Franscisco in a 29 foot
sailboat
with a small gas engine in the early 60's. It was slow--but something
which
was reasonable. It is as much the preparation as the boat. On the other
hand, I took care of one fellow who built a Wharram Catamaran, cruised down
to
Mexico, and almost died because the boat fell apart on the way back up the
coast. Fortunately he was found by fisherman and brought back to shore.
Bob Austin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl H. Martin" chmartin@tampabay.rr.com
To: "Passagemaking Under Power List"
passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PUP] The boat you own....
Bob,
I hope you don't mind me contacting you offline. We have been contemplating
upgrading from our Scout 30 to a GB36 with a single diesel. We like the GB
mainly because of it's classic triditional look & reputation for quality.
What's the downside? Hard chine? Limited size?
Thanx for any info,
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob Austin" thataway4@cox.net
To: peter@seaskills.com; "Passage under power"
passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:28 PM
Subject: [PUP] The boat you own....
Once you become acustomed to making passages, you can move some substantial
distances in relitatively short times. Our experience mirrors Peter's. We
were exactly 30 days from the Virgin Islands to San Diego....acouple of days
in Panama (not do-able currently due to back up of pleasure boats)--and a
day
in Acapulco and a day in Cabo.
There are lots of 40 foot boats which can make and have made these trips.
Grand Bank's 36's have gone up and down the entire coast. With all respect
to
GB, owners, this would not be my first choice, but no problem. I cruised
from
Long Beach to Cabo and up North as far as San Franscisco in a 29 foot
sailboat
with a small gas engine in the early 60's. It was slow--but something
which
was reasonable. It is as much the preparation as the boat. On the other
hand, I took care of one fellow who built a Wharram Catamaran, cruised down
to
Mexico, and almost died because the boat fell apart on the way back up the
coast. Fortunately he was found by fisherman and brought back to shore.
Bob Austin
Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions,
formerly known as Trawler World Productions.
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