Young Entertainer

I sold my first boat to match the wifes deposit on the first house, apparently I was unbearable for the next three years and have been allowed a boat ever since, but only one at a time is the rule I have had to live by

Upgrading has a lot to do with restraint. I would have loved a young 11, and even looked at a couple of 40 footers but the reality is I don't like working too hard and owning bigger boats means bigger maintenance bills. I t also appears we are lucky at Pine Harbour as the berths are 10.5m So I bought the best boat I could afford that ticked the most boxes I could tick and knew that I could afford to maintain while paying the mortgage and not having to bust a gut working every hour to pay for it all. At the same time we accepted that we are not going to be upgrading the house. BooBoo

Jon, I probably would have a hard time mounting a defence against that allegation!! but given in the first two months we spent more nights away on the new boat than in my entire sailing career I am hoping I have turned the cruising corner.

been there done that recently, sold the coyote with the intention of getting a new race boat with some family cruising in mind. Would have preferred a young 11 and there were a couple on the market within the budget at the time, but maintenance and marina costs finally swayed me into a 1020, fits in my 10.5m Marina, can afford a new set of sails every few of years and I get to go class racing a couple of times a year (now all I need is some excuses for the performance). Wife happy as we can cruise with the kids which we pretty much did every weekend in summer. Did look at imports as we

what are you using for the table top marshy? thinking about doing the same for rawhide

based on window size and colour Vestalia was there as well