The Daysailor Craze

[commanderpete]

Another fine example is the Essex 26.

Sleeps 6

http://www.sailboatlistings.com/cgi-...&ID=3297&mh=1#

[CapnK]

I dunno, Pete. You coulda stopped with that Waquiez. It still looks like a Sea Ray ran up the sugar-scoop stern of a Beneteau at speed, finally came to a stop midships, so they just glassed it in...

The Buccaneer pays homage to her ancestry, at least, with that little clipper bow. Being a bilge-keeler, I'd guess it's English, and so those large deadlights would help heat the cabin on a blustery day on the flats, while you waited for the tide to float you. I bet underway, with her cockpit that far forward, she's a *wet* ride, though...

I'll definitely take a pass on the Essex.

Where do you find these amazing examples of, ah, um, whatever it is that they are??? lol

[commanderpete]

I don't know who sends these threads off track

We've got to get rid of that bad taste

[commanderpete]

Weird

Mast is actually raked back a bit

[mbd]

Hmmm, very nice looking boat thar. But I thought it was supposed to have a snazzy new sea hood ???

[commanderpete]

Stay tuned. All varnished and ready. I've been planning to install the hood each weekend for a month now.

I get distracted

[frank durant]

Nice to see a graceful vessel posted again.I'm still in shock after looking at the previous posts....kinda like that feeling ya get after seeing a bad traffic accident!

[ebb]

www.ensignspars.com
A boatbuilder named Zeke Durica down in Dunedin FL
is building the 23' Ensign new. With a fiberglass rudder!
The web site is current.
We can hope that he is flourishing and that fleets are appearing
all over the country!

In 2001, in modern dollars, it cost $27,900 for a sailaway.
$4000 plus options for a float-on trailer.

[Bill]

Getting back to the current day sailor craze [CrossCurrent 33]:

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/06/1016/

[ebb]

Sointenly the most interesting thang about this daysailor
is the elefant thong they have for a thiller. And given the
extra wide and very empty footwell, it'll probably take
seven good men to steer with the thang.

[bill@ariel231]

I saw the cross current 33 during the sail for hope (my ride was a frers 40) .. CC33 is fast boat in the bay... it looked really, really wet on the short off-shore leg.

[Bill]

Not really a "day sailor," but sure is interesting . . .

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/06/1018/

[Wildcat]

my friends, that's a reasonably large craft pictured above. is that some sort of computer i see there?

[commanderpete]

Many computers

Press F5 to tack, F8 to jibe

Press Esc and the stewardess brings you another Mojito

very civilized

[ebb]

Strange craft, isn't it? (#55) They remembered to put some sofas for passengers on deck but how do you get below? Open that square hatch and look down into cold black water, like a nautical wormhole. Of course, there isn't anything below! Not even a beer. My question would be: why does a boat like this exist? Waste of teak, unless that deck is also a plastic imatation, which is unlikely, because the design had to have something authentic aboard. A lonely spooky sailboat, like a modern 'Flying Dutchman.'

Apropos the 'flexible' catamaran (#54) that looks inspired by an aracnid, there is a designer on the net (sorry I don't know how to lift the photos) who is making bulbous sided sailboats out of half tubes (bananasplit) of hypalon. They don't look half bad either.

"Hello, Coast Guard? Yeah, 10-4 and all that...say, Ah got a leak, and Ah can't get the glue to stick...Yeah, ohh, ummmm, so it's not life threatening, huh?..."

I can understand larger enforcement and emergency craft made of flexible rubber fabric, they go home and park regularly. I have to ask what if you take one in the tube? You know, that spray can of foam just won't do the job.

Hypalon airboats can last a decade, but then what? Some miracle coating in a can? Give me good old plastic every time! (#48)