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Re: Coastal Sailing Capabilities
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:58 am
by geo_pr1
Catigale wrote:The excess horsepower of a powersailor's engine works well to keep you exactly where you want
Until that engine fails and you cannot sail due to the lack of inertia.
A boat which requires a running motor to make way is not a safe boat offshore.
Please go to youtube and find stories of sailboats standing rigging, hardware and hull failures on open ocean sailing. The motor is the back up plan of any modern sailboat owner of any kind. It has to perform optimal and be maintained to do so at any time.
Re: Coastal Sailing Capabilities
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:17 pm
by yukonbob
This is true also for every cargo ship on the ocean. Don't see too many with sails anymore
Re: Coastal Sailing Capabilities
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:49 pm
by mastreb
WASP18 wrote:Mastreb:
If you choose the East Coast to become a bi-coastal sailor, consider Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island as a home base. Check it out on a map. The Bay is like a huge lake with brakish water. From there, you can head out toward open ocean and the Cape and islands. Read up and you'll see why Newport was chosen as a mecca for sailing and a place for the wealthy to summer. The temperature in Providence, RI or in
Boston could be 90 degrees and Newport will be 71. There's always a cool breeze blowing and every afternoon around 3 pm, a southwest wind kicks in to take you home.
Newport can be a fog area, yet if you sail north toward Providence, it's mostly clear. Rhode Island is a boater friendly state and there are several ramps where you can launch. Adding to this, you can pull into historic towns like Bristol or Warren, tie up and go shopping and eating at reasonable prices. These places will take you back in history once you see the brick and old stone buildings. Very quaint but most importantly, the area is NOT a resort like Cape Cod (except Newport). It's not overrun with tourists simply because many of the boaters live here. It's their home year round and boating is a way of life. It's probably the best kept secret in New England.
People in Connecticut travel to Rhode Island's south coast beaches for vacation rather than heading for the crowded Cape. Something to think about.
Thanks for the advice! We will definitely be looking for a boating community--it's one of the things that attracted us to Annapolis.
Re: Coastal Sailing Capabilities
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:46 pm
by Highlander
Their's Right
& then their's Dead Right
J
Re: Coastal Sailing Capabilities
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:44 pm
by Catigale
I'm closing this thread because of the nature of some very poor advice being given here and the possibility of new Mac owners getting some very wrong ideas about the nature of these boats.
1 this entire Forum is comprised almost entirely of weekend sailors with a small number of experienced sailors.
2 its a poor place to get advice on blue water cruising; there are lots better places to get this advice. The best place to get advice is by experience as crew on blue water.
3 Mac owners tend to suffer from "invested capital defense" and will go to great lengths to defend their boats, even to the point of misrepresenting its capabilities.
4 to the OP...it's fairly pointless of most to offer advice on Indian Ocean sailing other than your SA community of course. Experienced sailors know that without knowing the venue there isn't too much to say.
Lets move on to other topics please.