First Power Boat

[Tireless]

Most of the curtain hangers up my may are usually under motor, not sail. Power is the way to go for sure. You want to have a nice trip, but you do want to get therein a reasonable time. However, they do say it is very peaceful. Anyone I know that has gone from sail to power believe they made the right choice. To each their own.

[bud37]

In all honesty, if it wasn't for the boss , we would have had a sail boat years ago now.....raced for quite a while with a guy at the club, did the committee boat thing......I really loved it but now the body would not take it, don't think one is more expensive than the other, there are lots of pretty little things to rig your sailboat with believe me, other than gas,...... sails, winches,tracks,cars,pulleys,new sheets etc, etc....... .....

[Sadey]

Woah Cooler you've spent time on this. I've always thought snail boating was peaceful but getting excited over 8 knots was funny to me. But I figured the blow boaters were laughing at my gas bill. Maybe knot. I will say this, being on the water no matter what we are floating on connects us all. $$ be damned. -6 this am. Not sure about 4/15.

[RGrew176]

I used to work with a guy at Ford. He was a sailor. He was a competitive sailor having sailed in the Port Huron to Mackinaw sail races. He spent $5000 every other season replacing his sails. This was back in the 80's and we all know that what things cost then cost more now.

Sailing is not an inexpensive undertaking by any means.

[Cooler]

Sadey - no time spent at all. I used to sail in the 80's. Made a mistake one time thinking my wife could not hear me as we were coming into the dock, and she was posing for a picture being taken by a relative on shore. I yelled....as soon as it came out of my mouth....I knew I should have just hit whatever was there. Snail boating is peaceful, until somebody yells. The boats also shrink. When you look forward 10 miles to see the image of a shore, and then you look back 10 miles to see the other image of the shore, the 30 ft boat seems like 10 ft. You do get excited about 8 knts. because 90% of the time you're going 3 to 4 knts. I like sail boaters, I even go out and tow them in occasionally. er

[Sadey]

49 degrees on Saturday in shy town! Now that is something we all can get excited about!

[Tomb266]

Well, nice to see the debate continues over sail/power. Personally, there is the other side of being cold and wet while trying to get somewhere and feeling like you are always headed away from your destination. Ghee, listen to me, sounding like a hardcore power boat! I feel the change happening.

[Cooler]

Your post made me think of the Hook Race last year. It finishes at our marina, and the "winner" was on the water for 44 hours. Wind in exactly the wrong direction, then no wind, then downpour rain, etc. When those crews got parked, everything got hauled out to air dry, and I mean everything, from cabin seat cushions to crew underwear. It looked like a neighborhood that just went through a hurricane. The general consensus of crews that finished "never, ever, again". 48 boats started in Racine, 5 finished. Tomb - there is another characteristic to your evolution, you will drink less wine, and more rum,tequila. Be careful with that! er

[Midnightsun]

So please tell, wind in wrong direction, no wind and 48hrs later. The distance covered was? My guess is 25 miles.

[bud37]

Wind on the nose for three days, thats a huge amount of winching.... ....I'm game and so my guess would be somewhere around 165 miles...DMG +..... not counting tacks.........