Posted on 01/29/2016 6:36:35 PM PST by presidio9
I would like to be wealthy but the whole yacht thing is not my cup of tea.
In fact I think I would still live fairly plain lifestyle. I would like a nice house and enough land to do whatever I wanted without bothering anyone.
I know liberals in Seattle who voted for all the hard-left tax-and-spenders who cheated on their taxes to the tune of 10K.
“Taxes for thee but not for me.”
The liberal mantra.
I couldn’t get out of the city of Seassholes fast enough. Shame because the city itself was a nice city.
There's more (at least twice as much) sqft of living space on the boat. Length and beam fit snuggily into a 14,500 Sqft rectangle
Keep telling the wife -I only want enough land that I can throw a rock and not hit my neighbors house.... course I don’t mention from where on the property line I’m launching my rocket ;-)
I know that's not really it but that's what the feds want us to believe.
About how long overall can a yacht be, that can be operated by the owner alone without a paid crew? I’d guess around 44’ or so.
Ours is set up where one person can sail her but she’s big enough that getting in and out of slips, tiering off, etc. is really a 2 person job. There’s a 50 ft aft cabin Sea Ray down from us, gorgeous boat by the way, that 2 people could handle well. Our Marina managers have over a 60 footer but it looks so big not sure 2 people could.
I knew someone who had a 42’ Chris Craft twin screw cruiser. He would back into the slip using gearshifts with engines at idle. Gearshifts outboard, throttles inboard.
One night he powered back to the marina with a little rum under his belt. Turned the boat around & began backing toward the slip. Needing to slow, he reached for the gearshifts. But with his eyes on the slip his hands grasped the throttles and....well...POW!
Large boats nowadays have thrusters for docking. Amazing to watch.
Yeah you can turn em on a dime seems like but you still need another person to help tie off etc. here when someone sees a boat coming in there’s usually a couple of ‘neighbors’ waiting to help. Whether you know them or not. It’s just what everyone does.
Not long ago a smaller sailboat on another dock was pulling in really fast and when he hit reverse it couldn’t slow him down enough. He wound up on top of the dock.
I’ve seen all kinds of accidents with boats. Just like cars, crap happens. We took out the davits on a Coast Guard cutter when leaving a guest slip next to it in Newport Beach. Was backing out of the slip and got caught by a current that swung our bow around into the cuter. Our anchor caught their davits and ripped them out. Lol
IIRC, go no more than 5 knots in the yacht basin to minimize wakes. But an idiot speed demon in the channel can still churn up boats in slips, even deep keel sailboats.
I’m strictly ashore now, but when I was younger I used to dream of A/C systems for boats that didn’t cost a fortune like Marinaire.
LOL, one of their ads went, “The captain stood on the burning deck. It was too d@mned hot in the cabin!”
I remember when power boats looked like boats and not imperial starships. I google “Owens yacht images” & take a walk down memory lane. Oh, well.
It’s good thing Microsoft was allowed to import thousands of H-1B visa replacement workers otherwise they may have gone bankrupt. /sarc
Where we are we’re pretty lucky that it doesn’t usually get that hot. Yeah you can’t escape from the heat on a boat. We had a week of really hot temps here this last summer. Was 90 degrees in here. I actually drove to Lowes and walked up and down every aisle just to get cool. lol
Made me think about buying a small window unit to set in the companionway for just those days.
I googled “companionway hatch A/C”. Units that mount in the companionway seem to just block it off. One solution is a deck mounted window unit with a shroud that ducts cool air down into the bow hatch. All kinds of ways in the photos.
LOL, forty years later I’m still fascinated with air conditioning a boat cabin. As long as you’re connected to shore power, anything is possible. That 42’ Chrissie I mentioned had all the electric amenities, but no generator. Guess where it spent most of its days.
;^)
Depends on the owner's skill -and his wallet.
The 290ft Maltese Falcon, built by venture capitalist Tom Perkins can supposedly be rigged for solo.
Registered in the Caymans, of course.
We have no ‘Windows’ lol. We have 6 large port lights in the saloon, 1 small one in the double guest port and 4 smaller ones toward th bow in the master berth and head. None of them open except the small one in the double berth. The rest are all new deadlights. I probably wouldn’t mess with it anyway for a wk or 2 out of the year. That’s why I said inside the companionway. It would be portable/moveable.
Doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Grand Cayman is so overdeveloped anyway. Cruise ships in and out, raw sewage pumped offshore.
Meh, who cares about about 14,000 sq ft of reef.
Well...window meaning home window A/C unit. Easy to install in a cabin cruiser sliding window. I thought if a portlight doesn’t open, then it’s a deadlight.
Went to `companionway hatch’. You’ve probably figured out by now I’m a former stinkpotter (more headroom).
If I owned a sailboat & wanted A/C while in port, it would involve blowing refrigerated air downward through the companionway using a dismountable unit that would be stowed while under way.
That was then. Now we go to our oceanfront timeshare, walk on the beach & watch the sailboats in open water.
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