Tacomasailor
Veteran Member
We are looking at a '07 Norseman 560. It will be our liveaboard home in San Diego. We would like to take it as far north as San Francisco and south into the Sea of Cortez for a season or two.
I've attached a picture of the boat.
We are very experienced long distance sailors. We've done Seattle - San Diego four times, Annapolis - BVI, San Diego - Acapulco and back twice and lived aboard in the Sea of Cortez for three years. We know a lot about sailboats in big following seas but NOTHING about a power boat in the same conditions.
How will that 6' wide swim step, just a foot from the sea surface, do when headed down wind in 6' - 8' short steep waves that are so common headed SSE from San Francisco all the way to Cabo San Lucas?
The current owner has cruised from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta and back several times as well as several trips to Monterrey and back so it seems like the boat will work for what we want.
The boat has NO provision for lifting the dinghy to the boat deck and there is no room up there for a real cruisers dinghy, so it has to ride on that swim step. That idea scared the bejesus out of me - but maybe that is just my old sailboater self.
We will never be more than 25 miles offshore, except when crossing the Sea of Cortez, but there are a lot of stretches of water along the Baja West Coast where no safe harbor is available.
How do people cruise in bigger water with this kind of boat?
I've attached a picture of the boat.
We are very experienced long distance sailors. We've done Seattle - San Diego four times, Annapolis - BVI, San Diego - Acapulco and back twice and lived aboard in the Sea of Cortez for three years. We know a lot about sailboats in big following seas but NOTHING about a power boat in the same conditions.
How will that 6' wide swim step, just a foot from the sea surface, do when headed down wind in 6' - 8' short steep waves that are so common headed SSE from San Francisco all the way to Cabo San Lucas?
The current owner has cruised from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta and back several times as well as several trips to Monterrey and back so it seems like the boat will work for what we want.
The boat has NO provision for lifting the dinghy to the boat deck and there is no room up there for a real cruisers dinghy, so it has to ride on that swim step. That idea scared the bejesus out of me - but maybe that is just my old sailboater self.
We will never be more than 25 miles offshore, except when crossing the Sea of Cortez, but there are a lot of stretches of water along the Baja West Coast where no safe harbor is available.
How do people cruise in bigger water with this kind of boat?