Posted on 11/25/2013 7:47:39 AM PST by Travis McGee
I like cats, depending on some factors. Not so much the smaller, heavy and top-heavy “condo-cats,” but I’d go longer and leaner in the hulls than that as an approach. Very suited to the Bahamas, more so than my 6’ draft boat.
Thanks for posting. I found this on FB and sent it to a sailing friend.
what do you think about staying on the intracoastal on a 25 footer?
A 25 foot sailboat on the ICW is plenty for a bachelor or a very close couple. A 25 foot powerboat is even roomier, usually, depending. I am a huge fan of houseboats for escape pods. Sure, you can’t cross oceans, but you can roam from NY to Texas at low speed, and nobody looks twice at houseboats. Or hide out in a thousand rivers and creeks in between.
Thanks, Ralph. I hope he enjoys it.
What do owners of boats on the Atlantic coast or Gulf coast do when a hurricane is forecast to hit the area?
Pull the boat out of the water? Sail away from the hurricane? Something else?
For 30 footers, out of the water is best.
For bigger boats, it depends on how close you are to a haul-out marina, availability, timing etc.
Trying to outsail a hurricane is a bad strategy if you are already in harbor. Generally you get far up river if you can, or you just tie up very well in your marina, or anchor as best you can in the most protected location.
If you’re anticipating an inbound tsunami, and hop on your boat and get a few miles out to sea, in deeper water, the tsunami is essentially harmless, right?
Even though after it hits, there’s nothing to return to.
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