DSK wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:

I see a vision of me cooking a quesadia on my propane stove in the
galley looking through my forward facing port light, 12"X 20"ish with
a visor over the top of it to keep out most of the rain, with a custom
heavy weather cover which I'll lash on it in the heaviest P.S. weather.

Lunatic or visionary??? ;-)


Visionary, definitely. But you should have gotten a trawler.

Like this one, for example
http://community.webshots.com/album/63279185YQtgSA

Shoot man, trawler was right up there with 30+ sloop on my list of boats
under 10K as my first boat. My kids voted for the trawler, for sure.
There was this raunchy trawler in North Vancouver I had my eye on...

But hey, I'm in love with the Moonraker. I like the sailing deal. Last
weekend me and my 9yo son took off by motor from Boston Harbor. A guy
there had helped us rig up my only workable sail, a 150 genoa with a
missing clew ring reefed to a reef point on the jib on the only working
clew. I turned off the Yanmar and sailed around the bend at 2 knots. It
was a thing of beauty.

I love the idea of free energy.

Probably my next boat will be a trawler, or um, a bigger sailing cruiser.

Stephen