When choosing a boat, in addition to Human Comfort, and the Boat’s Performance Factors, there’s the beauty of the boat. This is essential but extremely personal. To choose a spouse merely for beauty can be a short ride to hell and likewise with a boat. But why choose a spouse or boat you can’t find […]
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Choosing a Boat: Performance Factors
Basic Safety Requirements are concerned with the build of the boat. There are some wonderful boats, lightly built, that should probably stick to coastal cruising. Areas of concern include the hull strength of the boat, deck construction and deck-hull joint, strength of keel attachment, amount of ballast that ensures righting moment when capsized, condition and strength of rig […]
Choosing a Boat: Human Comfort
Human comfort factors may be less important than Basic Performance comfort factors, but it can make the difference for many of us in the ability to continue cruising or to give it up. Perhaps it is not unfair to say that youth and passion can reduce the need for this category of amenities. This category […]
