What's better Sail Or Power

Hi Adz!
Sorry but it sounds like you don't have that much sailing experience and you want to sail in one of the worst places on earth in a home built boat? That sounds like disaster is about to strike. I would go to the local sailing club and ask a few people to take you out. Doesn't really matter what type of boat. Just get some miles up. It wouldn't be the first time that somebody dreamed about boating, build a boat in the backyard, forgot to learn how to sail/navigate and sunk the boat on the maiden voyage.

Good luck,
Karsten

 

I think a sub would be a great idea. LOL

Rs thompson thanks for the reply and the links

Adam

 

460 ft LOA with jacuzzi, tennis court & helipad.

 

You just want to outdo Paul Allen.....lol

btw, helipads are SO 1990.... the helicopter simply MUST be lowered into its wood-panelled hangar on hydraulics now. And docking submarines are now mandatory on yachts over 300', as are twin satellite domes and at least five tenders. And jacuzzis are on a per-stateroom basis.

 

What's better - sail or power

Thought I might add my ten cents worth as an ex-trawler skipper who spent 25 years fishing the Arctic circle in an Aberdeen built boat 'Eilean Eishdale' timber hull, 100 years old, 800 tonnes. And never once saw a multihulled craft in those seas.
Go for timber, single hulled - and if you get ship wrecked on the Skerries you can always use it for firewood until a friendly 'yottie' happens by.
Multi-hulled - Pah, Humbug....

 

"Every idiot who goes about with 'trimaran' on his lips should
be keel hauled beneath a proper yacht and impaled upon his
own mast to serve as a warning to others. Multihull. HUMBUG!"

 

Think you need to calm down. Mark . each to there own

 

Nothing against multihulls... I kind of like them for a lot of things. Wouldn't take one into ice, of course; that's a job for a great big single lump of something sturdy. But the fuel efficiency... oh, the fuel efficiency, and the speed.... and the look-at-that-gorgeous-modern-yacht factor when you're dockside....

 

If multi-hulls were superior to to mono-hulls, would aircraft carriers and supertankers not be cats and tris? The really, really, really big money seems to be on the mono-hulls.

 

With really big stuff like that, though, you can get 10:1 length-beam ratio on a single hull, and still have good lateral stability. Try that kind of slenderness in a smaller hull, an 80-footer for instance, and you get something so thin it rolls over and capsizes. The big advantage of a multihull is the ability to get very long, slender hulls- length:beam ratio on the order of 10:1 or 15:1 or more, and thus very low resistance and high speed-length ratio; while keeping lateral stability. On larger craft this is not that advantageous as big ships can already get this kind of slenderness in a monohull. Also the need to fit into ports, canals etc, and the cost of building the thing, come into play. Mono wins on all these counts. But for smaller craft the multihull can give serious efficiency and speed advantages as well as better stability than monos.

 

Simple question - were you going to park it? Aberdeen being a big ship commercial port other than the odd passerby on the 'linkspan' No Chance! up the river Dee small boat is about all, with the rest of 'em forget multihulls. Stonehaven Drying harbour - only choice that way is Dundee! Going the other way (the bible belt) is fishermen only until you get to Fort William. So laddie either move or forget it or buy a fifie!

 

What's better - sail or power- re: last SafeWalrus

Nah...buy or build a Zulu...more stylish.
Or if you choose power - can I suggest the Corrievrechan

 

Click the word Humbug in the post above... it'll give reference
to why I (mis)quoted the phrase.

I actually like multihulls... I sailed a Corsair F-27 trimaran to
work for three weeks when the ferry system was down.
I can only afford one boat at a time, and I grew up sailing multihulls
& prefer a boat that heels (multis feel unnatural to me), so I own
multihulls, but I would own a multi if the right deal came along.

 

Bergalia - I'll give you that one you old Sea Dog you; For class go for a zulu - but that tends to be more west coast, as you'll remember east coast is boring fifies and all staid God fearing bretheren, with the good enough for me da good enough for me, young loons didna ken fit they're blitheren about style of boating. OK fine safe (?) sailing but certainly NOTclass!

 

What's better - sail or power- re: last SafeWalrus

Well shave me uxters, SafeWalrus. Fit like, man. Ah didnae ken ye were an Aberdeen loon. So I'll gie ye this - I've worked fifies - and zulus, in my youth. Poetry the both. Pure poetry whose like we'll not see again.