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Like its smaller alternative, the West Wight Potter 19 has a history of some impressive cruises. An individual sailed this craft thousands of nautical miles from California to Hawaii —a single-handed voyage usually reserved for boats twice its size.
Luckily, you don’t have to permanently dock a sailboat to enjoy this great pastime.
The Contessa 26 is an excellent classic trailerable sailboat. Don’t let its modest size fool you—this cruising craft has a long-standing reputation for seaworthiness. The Contessa 26 is a fiberglass boat that debuted in 1965 and has since earned a bit of a cult following. here
we did sail most of the way more
Any suggestions or observations would be gratefully recieved!
Some of the other club members have bought and sold sailing boats over the years, mainly because they cannot get the mast to lower to get under some of the bridges. The swing bridge now costs £120 to open one way (they now take credit cards !).
I was wondering what would be the biggest boat that would be able to raise and lower its mast comfortably, and if anyone has ever done modifications to their boat for this purpose. The main problems I have seen is that either the mast does not have a hinged tabernacle, or the mast is so long that the balance of the boat seems compromised.
From Chicago, most sailors don't step their mast again until they reach Mobile Bay. This is not only what we do, it is what
we strongly suggest. On either route you take, (the Lower Mississippi river or the Tennessee - Tombigbee) it is the traffic and long
frequent stretches of narrow waterways, that restricts your sailing. For most of the way, it is almost impossible sail safely for any
length of time between Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico. The traffic is heavy, the currents are strong, and the marked channels are
simply too narrow, and the wind for the most part blows in your face.
Traveling at 5 knots, he averaged more
than 150 miles on 6 gallons of gas.
That's an average fuel burn rate of only
0.24 gallons per hour. here
My son & I did this in 2010 on a 28'
sailboat - using a 10 hp motor and we
averaged 0.4 gph motoring around the
entire Loop. Our total cost for fuel,
$1,300. Our total fuel, oil, tuneup, and
engine related expenses were $3,000. [links]
'The green lobby should be celebrating - as cargo ships are significant CO2 contributors. [links]
Size of sailing masts: 300ft more
A coastguard tugboat looks like a toy next to the enormous Sailing Yacht A as it bobs in the sea off the coast of Gibraltar here
Sailing Yacht A’s delivery was described as 'an iconic moment for all those involved' in its construction more
Mr Melnichenko is expected to recover some of the costs by licensing the technology developed for the vessel for commercial applications.
Mr Melnichenko founded the fertilizer producer EuroChem, coal producer Suek, and power generator SGK.