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Old 06-22-2014, 08:06 AM   #32
bayview
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IMO people often choose boats designed for the image of themselves they wish to portray rather than what they actually do. The macho button seems easily pushed when marketing " battle wagons" to sport fish buyers and the rugged passage maker button equally easily pushed to folks rarely venturing out of sight of land.

Nordhaves are marketed as ocean crossing vessels and have design features targeted at those requirements.

Coastal cruising and ICW and canal cruising OTOH has different requirements or at least doesn't have the requirements of long offshore passages.

To use the automobile analogy popular here it is possible to shop and take the kids to school in a Porsche but there are alternatives better suited to those purposes..

IMO buy a boat suited to what you actually do vs what you imagine. Given a choice few people seem to ignore weather when crossing to the Bahamas regardless of the type of boat they have. So does it really matter if you have 8' of freeboard on the bow and 6' draft?
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