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Old 03-07-2017, 11:52 AM   #19
BobH
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City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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Originally Posted by hollywood8118 View Post
Really???

Clearly you do not have a clue,

This is a powerboat forum... if he wanted to sail he would of bought a sailboat...then he would post on a sail forum.

To those of us that have done long distance voyaging depending on where you want to go power can be a better option.

Now I find myself questioning why I posted this as it was such a wacky question in the first place...

HOLLYWOOD
I have been wondering for some time now why there has never been any mention of sailboats on this forum. Thank you for setting me straight. My point wasn't that his trip should not be done with a power boat but that having to rig, deploy, tweak and retrieve the fish seemed like a lot of work, no different from raising and trimming sails with the addition of fuel costs and noise. I'm not talking the Queen Mary or 100+ ft yachts, I'm talking about his 42' boat.
Having never done "long distance voyaging", our longest stretches were maybe 300-500 nm, can you give an example where power would be a better option?
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