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04-04-2017, 08:49 AM
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Guru
City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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Happy Days are here
Finally sold the stink pot, now we can resume our search for another sailboat. No offense to the many members of TF, but we spent much time, effort and money to try and make this boat ours, but it just didn't click.
Back to the search,
Bob
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04-04-2017, 11:42 AM
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Guru
City: Satsuma FL
Vessel Name: No Mo Trawla
Vessel Model: Hurricane SS188
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 2,300
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Congratulations and good luck on finding the sailboat of your dreams.
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04-04-2017, 12:14 PM
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#3
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Guru
City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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The sad part is that we had our dream boat back in the early 2000s, we just didn't realize it at the time. We lived aboard and cruised for six years and then decided we wanted something a little different. Since then we bought and sold a small sailing cat and then the aft cabin trawler recently sold.
Wish we had our old sailboat back,
Bob
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04-04-2017, 12:34 PM
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Guru
City: Hernando Beach
Vessel Model: Seaway
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 506
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Bob - Please share with us the make/model of the sailboat you regret selling!
Thank you,
Pea
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04-04-2017, 03:26 PM
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#5
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Guru
City: Gig Harbor
Vessel Name: Kinship
Vessel Model: North Pacific 43
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 9,046
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Bob, come buy my 2005 Catalina 400. Great sailboat if you can handle a 7' draft.
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04-04-2017, 03:59 PM
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Guru
City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dhays
Bob, come buy my 2005 Catalina 400. Great sailboat if you can handle a 7' draft.
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Wrong side of the country and probably out of our price range. Lost a ton of money on the sale.
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04-04-2017, 04:09 PM
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#7
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Guru
City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Miz Trom
Bob - Please share with us the make/model of the sailboat you regret selling!
Thank you,
Pea
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It wasn't so much the make and model, we worked on it for two years before moving aboard so it was just the way we wanted things. It was an Irwin centercockpit cutter rigged ketch, four sails to play with. Other than the watermaker and washing machine, the thing we really miss is the big cockpit. It was long enough to nap in, seated six to eight for Happy Hour, with more on the back deck, sitting at the back of the cockpit you could see all around while the autopilot drove the boat. My wife made a full enclosure so we stayed dry in the rain and warm when it was cold or blowing.
The one drawback was that it was a flush deck so the only windows below where the ports in the hull. In a marina all you could see were legs going by. The boat was equipped for cruising, so once we moved back on land there was a lot of equipment we really didn't need anymore so we thought we would try something else, maybe with big windows. After buying the trawler we quickly realized that in Texas, big windows are not all that desirable.
Bob
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04-04-2017, 05:49 PM
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#8
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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Good luck, the previous owner of my boat was a long time sailor He sold it, a Shannon 40 something, to buy a trawler, about a year later decided he enjoyed sailing more so he sold it the trawler to me.
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04-04-2017, 06:14 PM
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#9
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Guru
City: Philadelphia, PA
Vessel Name: Revel
Vessel Model: 1984 Fu Hwa 39
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 1,024
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04-04-2017, 07:38 PM
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#10
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Guru
City: Narragansett Bay
Vessel Model: Grand Banks 36 Classic #715
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 1,856
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Our sailboat is still available.
That is a beautiful boat. Great price. I bet she sails well.
Good luck with the sale.
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04-04-2017, 07:49 PM
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#11
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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There are times I wish I had split the difference for a motorsailer..
Then there are time I wish I had a 20 plus knot boat.
Then there are times I wish........
But it is rare that I ever wish I went back to a sailboat....
Oh well.....good luck!
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04-04-2017, 09:15 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
City: San francisco
Vessel Name: Pacific Star
Vessel Model: 1990 Grand Banks 32 #834
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 204
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Stinkpots?
whatever floats your boat...so to speak.
We happily made the transition from sail to Trawler. As my wife said at the time,
"Those stinkpots don't smell nearly as bad as they used to!"
Happy saiiling!
Oldersalt
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04-04-2017, 09:45 PM
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#13
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Guru
City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
Vessel Name: boatless, ex: Seeadler
Vessel Model: RAWSON 41
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 2,217
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Quote:
Originally Posted by psneeld
There are times I wish I had split the difference for a motorsailer..
Oh well.....good luck!
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I chartered a Nauticat 44 for a couple weeks. Seemed like an optimal compromise.
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04-05-2017, 09:07 AM
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#14
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Guru
City: Montgomery, TX
Vessel Name: Encore
Vessel Model: Whitby 42
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 844
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Considered motorsailer but never found one in our price range that we liked. Funny thing about sailboats. In my younger days I owned several different Porsches, all used, autocrossed, ran hillclimbs, rebuilt engines and so forth. Loved all that mechanical stuff. Then one day a friend took me out on his Hobie and I was hooked. Bought one a week later.
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04-05-2017, 05:04 PM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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Never coming back to relying on sails.
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