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05-10-2016, 10:34 PM
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Senior Member
City: Gustavia
Vessel Name: Soler Fox
Vessel Model: Selene 62
Join Date: Apr 2016
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what's the boat of your dreams
I'm curious to know your dreams boat, we not speaking about budget :bang head: or possibility just dreams ... 
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05-10-2016, 10:38 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
Vessel Name: SONAS
Vessel Model: Grand Alaskan 53
Join Date: May 2014
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We just got ours in February. 
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05-10-2016, 10:43 PM
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Senior Member
City: Gustavia
Vessel Name: Soler Fox
Vessel Model: Selene 62
Join Date: Apr 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by menzies
We just got ours in February. |
I love that, how long you was expecting to accomplish this dream, I can imagine that not your first boat?
Hugues
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05-10-2016, 10:53 PM
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Guru
City: AR
Join Date: Jul 2009
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The boat of MY dreams is big enough for the grand piano and run a professional captain and crew, one of which is a gourmet chef.
"A man's dreams must exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for?" --Robert Browning
(applies to women too!)
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05-10-2016, 11:21 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
Vessel Name: SONAS
Vessel Model: Grand Alaskan 53
Join Date: May 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HeadMistress
The boat of MY dreams is big enough for the grand piano and run a professional captain and crew, one of which is a gourmet chef.
"A man's dreams must exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for?" --Robert Browning
(applies to women too!)
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Something the Missus and I have discussed.
We would hate to have a boat that we could not run ourselves.
We do not want strangers (captain, crew, galley) on our boat. Our dream is to have a boat we can run and manage ourselves, with the budget where we can pen the checks for maintenance, They do the maintenance and then get off the boat!
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05-10-2016, 11:28 PM
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Guru
City: Campbell River
Vessel Name: Blue Sky
Vessel Model: Nordic Tugs 42 Hull #001
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Conrad
Berthed in
Campbell River BC
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05-10-2016, 11:30 PM
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Guru
City: Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club
Vessel Name: Lulu (Refugio sold)
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Kind of related to the " Taking the Plunge" thread where I was enthusiastic about a 1987 Ocean, I'm currently interested in this 1985 50' Ocean MK II that's been extended 4':
I showed it to my wife today. She said "nice...it looks bigger than Refugio - is it?". Er, just a bit...
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05-10-2016, 11:40 PM
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Senior Member
City: Gustavia
Vessel Name: Soler Fox
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Conrad
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they are very strange looking boats..
Hugues
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05-10-2016, 11:44 PM
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Guru
City: Campbell River
Vessel Name: Blue Sky
Vessel Model: Nordic Tugs 42 Hull #001
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 101TUG
they are very strange looking boats..
Hugues
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I think they are beautiful! But of course only after you have removed the upper deck captain's cabin or whatever it is called.
Great comment - I laughed out loud!
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Berthed in
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05-10-2016, 11:49 PM
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Senior Member
City: Gustavia
Vessel Name: Soler Fox
Vessel Model: Selene 62
Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 339
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05-11-2016, 12:23 AM
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
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Wifey B: One of each....I dream of them all.
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05-11-2016, 12:34 AM
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Guru
City: Tri Cities, WA
Join Date: Nov 2012
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Well, if I can't have AZZAM, I'd take either of these two. The first is a Fleming 65, the second a Marlow 66, but it would have to have a white hull.
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1981 Boston Whaler 13'
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05-11-2016, 01:28 AM
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Guru
City: Seattle
Join Date: Jun 2012
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I bought my dream boat years ago and it turned out that the dream was better than reality.
So nowadays I don't have a dream... only a goal and a strategy to reach it.
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05-11-2016, 02:02 AM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by makobuilders
I bought my dream boat years ago and it turned out that the dream was better than reality. So nowadays I don't have a dream... only a goal and a strategy to reach it.
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Yes, I'm just about that practical. Some of you here already have dream boats, and even though my own dream boat doesn't exist, it would probably look something like this....some of the attributes of the vessel I have now, space, visibility, shallow draft, economy, rich interior, storage and lots of separate spaces by which to enjoy the enjoy the water. But I'd want a good turn of speed while still maintaining economy, so it would need to be a cat, but one with two stand-up engine rooms, quarter windows, and an inside stairway to the pilothouse. Trouble is, the cat being sensitive to heavy loading, I might need to have some pretty buoyant hulls. So this Mana-cat would just about do it all.
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"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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05-11-2016, 02:52 AM
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City: Seattle
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Like Mako-we no longer dream, but for a different reason-we have the boat of our dreams. Of the hundreds of boats I saw before, and the hundreds I have seen since we got our boat, I have yet to see one I would trade for for any reason or under any circumstance. So, we no longer need to dream, we just enjoy the reality.
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05-11-2016, 02:54 AM
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Guru
City: Seattle
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,142
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Larry-what happened to your nice new pilothouse windows? You just got them and already changed the design?
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05-11-2016, 06:57 AM
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Guru
City: Biloxi, MS
Vessel Name: Cajun Rose
Vessel Model: Biloxi Lugger
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,383
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The boat I have now is it, or will be it! Growing up I heard stories of my Grampa running a lugger similar to mine. I was a late child so all that was done by the time I showed up, boat gone gramps dead. But that little dream stayed with me till now. Actually for the record my boat is bigger then my Gramps's. My hope now is that my family and friends enjoy it as much as I know I will. My new dream is for my son to take the boat after I'm gone and keep it going, the dream that is.
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05-11-2016, 07:00 AM
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Guru
City: Biloxi, MS
Vessel Name: Cajun Rose
Vessel Model: Biloxi Lugger
Join Date: Jul 2011
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There are two boats in the pictures. The Marie was Gramps' and the other was I believe his dads? I don't know for sure. And I don't know why they are stringing up a Ray, those are pretty common around here but I don't eat them. To many other good things to eat.
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05-11-2016, 07:12 AM
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Guru
Join Date: Jun 2014
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So, we (my wife and I) are probably a bit unusual in this regard but neither of us wants a boat bigger than about 40 ish feet...
I do not understand the desire for such large boats...
Sure the space is nice and I'm sure people love them but so much of what we do would be limited by larger boats.
I love wooden boats, plank on frame and cold molded. I love fiberglass boats. Trawlers, tugs, express boats, sailboats, dinghies...
I simply love boats!
Today we headed out for a sea trial on an American Tug 395.
This may soon be our "favorite boat"
Bruce
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05-11-2016, 07:30 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,053
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce B
So, we (my wife and I) are probably a bit unusual in this regard but neither of us wants a boat bigger than about 40 ish feet...
I simply love boats!
Today we headed out for a sea trial on an American Tug 395.
This may soon be our "favorite boat"
Bruce
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Hold that thought... 
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