I asked this question before as part of a different thread and it got lost so I will try again. We are considering selling our Bristol if we have decided that we have crossed enough oceans. If so we will be mainly sailing on Lake Ontario with possible visits to the other Great Lakes, Atlantic Canada, New England, and possibly Bermuda.
In the last few years we have gotten used to doing a lot of sailing and not much motoring. I think we put on 400 hours in 33,000 miles, mainly going into and out of anchorages and harbours. Anyway, back to Lake Ontario. In most of the too short sailing season here the winds are quite light and typically you end up motoring a lot if you want to get anywhere. We are considering a more performance-oriented boat for the future. The other wrinkle we have is that we don't want to go deeper than 5' 6" draft (5' would be better). Generally performance and shallow draft do not seem to go together which is the problem. Our other concern is that we would like to keep the boat to less than $100k if possible. We looked at a J37c in Annapolis and it was interesting. It is 5'3" and has a PHRF (for illustrative purposes) of 81. Our 45' Bristol is 117 so it would be quite a bit faster than what we are used to and way faster than most mid 30s cruising boats. There also are J35c and J34c models that are similar and slower than the 37. The Admiral really liked the X35c at the boat show but it is pretty new model and they are not on the used market and certainly would not be in our price range. Are there other X-yacht models that would suit? What about other builders? We would consider any boats in the eastern half of North America.
Final question - to maximize sailing possibilities what sail additions would make sense for a semi-geriatric, but experienced, couple to have on a boat of this size and type?
Thanks for your thoughts.
In the last few years we have gotten used to doing a lot of sailing and not much motoring. I think we put on 400 hours in 33,000 miles, mainly going into and out of anchorages and harbours. Anyway, back to Lake Ontario. In most of the too short sailing season here the winds are quite light and typically you end up motoring a lot if you want to get anywhere. We are considering a more performance-oriented boat for the future. The other wrinkle we have is that we don't want to go deeper than 5' 6" draft (5' would be better). Generally performance and shallow draft do not seem to go together which is the problem. Our other concern is that we would like to keep the boat to less than $100k if possible. We looked at a J37c in Annapolis and it was interesting. It is 5'3" and has a PHRF (for illustrative purposes) of 81. Our 45' Bristol is 117 so it would be quite a bit faster than what we are used to and way faster than most mid 30s cruising boats. There also are J35c and J34c models that are similar and slower than the 37. The Admiral really liked the X35c at the boat show but it is pretty new model and they are not on the used market and certainly would not be in our price range. Are there other X-yacht models that would suit? What about other builders? We would consider any boats in the eastern half of North America.
Final question - to maximize sailing possibilities what sail additions would make sense for a semi-geriatric, but experienced, couple to have on a boat of this size and type?
Thanks for your thoughts.