bfloyd4445
Guru
just read about a couple doin the horn in a d passagemaker. Anyone out there done such a thing? I'm thinking of buying a trawler maybe a defever
They died of old age ailments, on land. So will most of us.
Never been to the west coast, don’t know anything about bar crossings.
No DeFever PassageMakers were built with Chrysler engines as far as I know, and I know a lot about the DeFever 40.
Check the pedigree of the boat you intend to buy carefully.
Mike
The one i fell in love with is solid but needs teak deck work and has those twin chryslers
My best advice is not to fall in love with any boat until the deal is struck and it passes surveys. It'll save yourself a lot of frustrations.
The on line logs from Nordhavn 46 Egret talk aobut meeting a DeFever in southern Atlantic waters. The DeFever owners were supposedly of sound mind. I read the online logs of a DeFever 49 that went from west coast US to England via the Panama Canal. This past September, a fellow I know delivered his DeFever 60 from San Diego area to Seattle, non stop. All sorts of boats are out there floating around - not too easy to gossip on this Forum and cruise seriously at the same time, which is maybe why it is hard to comprehend a DeFever rounding Cape Horn.
no way i would round the cape in anything under three hundred feet long. But i do know that once one really gets to know a particular boat he can make it do things with ease that would davey jones most others. I saw a guy flirting with rocks in a beer can hulled 23 footer off the lighthouse at Coos bay get caught off gaurd and picked up by a swell which deposited him smack on a rock. He didnt sink and appeared to be functional but I'll bet he had a nice dent.
I try and respond asap but sometimes i am out of the area or fishing, farming, fixing fences, splitting hives extracting honey etc.I've been there several times....on a ship around 310 feet long and there were lots of other vessels around much smaller that I would have rather been on in that area.
How often do you reread your posts after someone comments on them????
I try and respond asap but sometimes i am out of the area or fishing, farming, fixing fences, splitting hives extracting honey etc.
Why?
The difficulty in rounding the Horn isn't the Horn itself but the thousand plus miles of very remote cruising down the east coast of South America. There is little in the way of provisions or help down there. As to the Horn, you pick your window. I wouldn't hesitate in our DeFever if that was part of my route.
No one in a smaller trawler would go out into the Southern Ocean unless they had to...there is an inside Pacific Northwest in places.
Stop in Punta Arenas as their Crab Bisque w/ cheese (like french onion soup made with King Crab) is great and have a beer to wash it down ...it was only a couple of bucks when I was there...even if it quadrupled to $10 it's still a bargain...
chuckle,,,,if i had the money i would. I would have lots of fun hireing a good crew.....u know good help is hard to get todayWhy??? Because you won't spring for that 300 foot plus expedition trawler????