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Old 10-28-2012, 09:54 AM   #5
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City: Port Townsend Washington
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Originally Posted by Larry M View Post
The Krogen and GB are way to slow and very high on the maintenance scale. If you only have weekends and a few weeks per year, going 7-9 knots would really limit your cruising area and all that teak? Get something newer and faster like an Express Cruiser. Less maintenance and get to see more. With 2 young children, a plastic boat would be perfect.

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For round 3 I would concur with the above choice... the 40' Sea Ray I currently have has opened me up to a new style of boating that has changed a bit of my perspective on short cruises. A diesel cruiser like the above is a very capable boat for the family cruise. With that being said I have had long weekends where we spent more on fuel than we did in a entire season on Volunteer. This is one of the reasons we are headed back to a Trawler... fuel costs and we miss all the accessible above deck space
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