mattkab
Senior Member
Apparently we only keep boats for 3 years.
We are looking at a couple options for a new boat in the next year or two…. and have been debating the merits of a couple models (I’m intentionally not mentioning the models in this email yet to keep things theoretical). We (two adults, a 10yr old child, and a dog) currently have a single stateroom 34' CHB that we spend about a dozen nights aboard a year, and another couple dozen day trips. We want to spend more time aboard (inland Puget Sound primarily), but not having a 2nd stateroom for our daughter makes it less and less appealing, so we are starting to window shop.
A major concern is that one of the contending models is quite a bit larger than anything else we’ve been looking at — but the interior layout is just about ideal. It has two full staterooms, a third stateroom that is a combination of bunks and/or office, a full pilothouse, dinghy storage on the flybridge, and a covered aft cockpit. But at 45’ long we are a bit intimidated by the sheer size.
At a similar price point is another model that doesn’t have a pilothouse nor the 3rd stateroom, but gains full walk-around decks and stairs rather than a ladder to the flybridge (which is good for dogs). It’s, in general, a younger boat (1999 -> 2010 or so) with a 39’ length.
Previous boats that we've owned are a 27' Catalina sailboat, a 30' Catalina sailboat, and a 28' twin-engine Bayliner Flybridge.
Thoughts?
What questions should we be asking ourselves?
We are looking at a couple options for a new boat in the next year or two…. and have been debating the merits of a couple models (I’m intentionally not mentioning the models in this email yet to keep things theoretical). We (two adults, a 10yr old child, and a dog) currently have a single stateroom 34' CHB that we spend about a dozen nights aboard a year, and another couple dozen day trips. We want to spend more time aboard (inland Puget Sound primarily), but not having a 2nd stateroom for our daughter makes it less and less appealing, so we are starting to window shop.
A major concern is that one of the contending models is quite a bit larger than anything else we’ve been looking at — but the interior layout is just about ideal. It has two full staterooms, a third stateroom that is a combination of bunks and/or office, a full pilothouse, dinghy storage on the flybridge, and a covered aft cockpit. But at 45’ long we are a bit intimidated by the sheer size.
At a similar price point is another model that doesn’t have a pilothouse nor the 3rd stateroom, but gains full walk-around decks and stairs rather than a ladder to the flybridge (which is good for dogs). It’s, in general, a younger boat (1999 -> 2010 or so) with a 39’ length.
Previous boats that we've owned are a 27' Catalina sailboat, a 30' Catalina sailboat, and a 28' twin-engine Bayliner Flybridge.
Thoughts?
What questions should we be asking ourselves?
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