Hey,
This is a thread to talk about sailboats, sailors, and sailing.
After being in British Columbia in 2003 with my mom’s sister and her husband on their sailboat, and then again in 2006 in Hawaii with them … now we’re hooked. They have a 44’ ketch sailboat. Bruce Robert’s design.
About a month ago, my family bought a CS27, so far, it’s a great boat.
Anyone here do any sailing?
-Isaac
I used a friend’s Dyer Dhow to learn to sail when I was 10. Borrowed some Lazers, Zumas, Sunfish for a few years until I got a job. I bought my own Snipe when I was 16. It took another 6 months to save up enough to get a car to be able to tow it.
Upgraded to the Colgate 26, when the Nav had its say in my boat choice. I got to skipper Navy 44’s up and down the eastern seaboard for two summers a few years ago. By far, that was my favorite sailing. 40+ miles offshore, navigating off the stars with just GPS as a backup, no land in sight in any direction, rolling seas, hard to the wind. . . I guess I’m just a “big boat”, blue water kinda guy.
My in-laws sold their house 3 years ago and bought a Tayana 37. They started in Maine, went south as far as the Bahamas and they’re currently in Turkey. They have no plans to return to a “normal”, land-based lifestyle.
My dad sails, I do to somtimes (not very often though). We somtimes stay a couple of night’s on our tracker, which is somthing like 25’’. I googled your boat name to see what it looks like and found this http://sailquest.com/market/models/cs27.htm - it says somthing about osmotic blistering, sounds pritty bad and thought I should tell you in case you did’nt know.
Yeah, a lot of boats can get blistering. We had ours surveyed, and the survey came back with no blistering or anything on the hull.
Thanks though,
-Isaac
My dad is a keen salior, he once sailed to San Diego on Hans Christian 34’’ from New Zealand with 3 friends of his.