Posted by Bob on 11/10/2007, 10:04:53, in reply to "Re: Small Boats Safe?"
Hi Dave
The boat has a 40% Ballast/Displacement ratio and is as stable
as you can get. Pure lead ballast. Most of his sailing will be in temperate, good weather months with favorable tradewinds.
He has a large collection of paperbacks and plans to spend many hours under the sun-shade as the boat moves downwind across the Pacific, with the windvane doing the work.
He wanted a boat that could take a Force 10 storm for several days and at the same time be strong, self righting and
water-tight. She is water tight. He has several sea-anchors for
drogging along in a bare-pole storm situation; he plans to set
the sea-anchors and lay-ahull down below with the watertight
bulkhead door closed. The boat could take a complete roll in a storm and no water would get below. Kind of overkill in my book but hey, it's his boat. hahaha
A stock boat could do the trip; but this man wanted some personal changes. One big expense was the Windvane at about
$2500 installed; the lewmar stainless opening ports were a few
hundred; the other hardware/stainless/handrails were relatively
inexpensive. Upgrading gear on a stock boat isn't expensive, for instance a few changes in the rig (mast mounted topping lift for example) only added about 80 dollars overall.
The Bulkhead, watertight, aluminum door was another big expense item. Built in Louisiana by a Shipyard to my specs. Lets not go there. ($)
Here is a stock M_17 set up for cruising. Notice the outside mounted Seaswing stove..?..with another mount on the starboard side as well.
Take care
Bob
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