BayRetriever
Newbie
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2015
- Messages
- 2
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Retriever
- Vessel Make
- Beneteau 40 (now), Ranger 31 (2016)
Hey ya'll.
I'm a soon-to-be-former sailor looking to sell my Beneteau 40 and take in a new Ranger 31 next spring. While I love sailing, I'm still in my mid-40's - years from retirement - and I find most of my free weekends (or week-long cruises in the summer) are spent with the engine on at 6.5kts just trying to get to the next destination. Cruising at 16kts - and reducing my draft from 5'3 to 2'4 - opens up my cruising grounds enormously.
I know Rangers are small and light - got it. For the most part I'm "stuck" on the Chesapeake and don't need a heavy trawler for another decade or more. I've done the ditch from Norfolk to Key West and know the little Ranger would do just fine on that route (much more expeditiously and worry-free than my 5'3 draft, 63'-masted sailboat, actually).
I know I can get "more boat for less money" used, but again I'm still working, so would rather spend my free time on the water vice keeping an older boat up to par. I guess I just wanted to introduce myself, see who the other Ranger folks and/or Chesapeake cruisers are - and if you know of anyone in the market for a great lookin' 2008 Beneteau 40 on the Chesapeake then lemme know!
- Brian
I'm a soon-to-be-former sailor looking to sell my Beneteau 40 and take in a new Ranger 31 next spring. While I love sailing, I'm still in my mid-40's - years from retirement - and I find most of my free weekends (or week-long cruises in the summer) are spent with the engine on at 6.5kts just trying to get to the next destination. Cruising at 16kts - and reducing my draft from 5'3 to 2'4 - opens up my cruising grounds enormously.
I know Rangers are small and light - got it. For the most part I'm "stuck" on the Chesapeake and don't need a heavy trawler for another decade or more. I've done the ditch from Norfolk to Key West and know the little Ranger would do just fine on that route (much more expeditiously and worry-free than my 5'3 draft, 63'-masted sailboat, actually).
I know I can get "more boat for less money" used, but again I'm still working, so would rather spend my free time on the water vice keeping an older boat up to par. I guess I just wanted to introduce myself, see who the other Ranger folks and/or Chesapeake cruisers are - and if you know of anyone in the market for a great lookin' 2008 Beneteau 40 on the Chesapeake then lemme know!
- Brian