Are you a salty dog NanaQ?
I think sailing very well may had been my first love in life. There's magic when you hear that main flutter and feel that keel cut through the water knowing you could just go on forever and ever...
I appreciate a good power boat, and had a few twin screws, but I just didn't love em like I LOVED my 22' Chrysler amc swing keel, "Lou's Lady Blue". Easy to solo, comfy enough for 2, keel up draft 18" keel down 4'8". Shallow enough for bays and bayous, big enough for blue water adventures.
She crossed the pond, and spent time in that nasty river Rhine. She look like a traveling trunk, the old squid had her all tattooed on the bow for every port and country he visited. Joked he was running out of room and needed a bigger canvas. It was hard to sand her clean, felt like I was taking away her badges of honor.
I added 8 extra feet on the mast, an could fly some huge spinnakers running with the wind, big old balloon off the bow. I outfitted her with a 5' bowsprit and graced her with roller furls. She was a beamy old broad, an could realy fly across the water.
Ohhh, but on the nights, listening to the stays clank, and the waves slap her hull, while being gentle rocked to sleep, paradise I tell ya, dreaming before you even closed your eyes.
I was born to be a Son of a Son of a Buccaneer.
I vote sailboat too.
You spend much time on the blue water?
Are you a salty dog NanaQ?
I think sailing very well may had been my first love in life. There's magic when you hear that main flutter and feel that keel cut through the water knowing you could just go on forever and ever...
I appreciate a good power boat, and had a few twin screws, but I just didn't love em like I LOVED my 22' Chrysler amc swing keel, "Lou's Lady Blue". Easy to solo, comfy enough for 2, keel up draft 18" keel down 4'8". Shallow enough for bays and bayous, big enough for blue water adventures.
She crossed the pond, and spent time in that nasty river Rhine. She look like a traveling trunk, the old squid had her all tattooed on the bow for every port and country he visited. Joked he was running out of room and needed a bigger canvas. It was hard to sand her clean, felt like I was taking away her badges of honor.
I added 8 extra feet on the mast, an could fly some huge spinnakers running with the wind, big old balloon off the bow. I outfitted her with a 5' bowsprit and graced her with roller furls. She was a beamy old broad, an could realy fly across the water.
Ohhh, but on the nights, listening to the stays clank, and the waves slap her hull, while being gentle rocked to sleep, paradise I tell ya, dreaming before you even closed your eyes. I was born to be a Son of a Son of a Buccaneer.
I vote sailboat too.
You spend much time on the blue water?