Sailing Torbay, Devon
Once you own a boat, you start to make a mental list of the features and the cleaver bits of design that would make life aboard better – sometimes just a little better and sometimes a lot. I thought I’d turn my own personal list into a series of posts here. This is part one of that list.
My first wish for any cruising boat is illustrated in the picture below and it’s one that makes life a lot better –
Continue reading “Boat Design Wish List 1. Forepeak Locker”
Hello, come have a look around our 30 foot (9.12 metres) sailing boat, Lady Jo. She’s a Hunter Legend 306 twin keeled, single rudder monohull with a large roached mainsail on a backstayless B&R rig, she is steered by a wheel and has a max speed of around 7 knots (I think we got 7.5 out of her once).
Here’s a few photos of the inside. I’ve spruced her up by adding in a few pictures on the walls, a throw and cushions.
On the outside my favourite bit is the cockpit with the dolphins seats – the best place to sit when cruising along.
Continue reading “A tour of Lady Jo by Claire”
When choosing Lady Jo as mine and Claire’s first boat last summer, we weren’t sure exactly what we wanted, but one particular thing we were unsure of was size – how big did we need her to be so that she could work well for us and what were the compromises that came along with going for a boat of a certain size?
We knew there were couple of things that we didn’t need her to be which helped –
Continue reading “The right size boat?”