hello all!
i am 30, from new york.
i have a wife, and a bump.
i have been looking to full time for about 4-5 years now.
the reasons are mainly financial.
i cannot see buying a house, and paying $4500-6500 a year in property tax, plus upkeep, plus electric, heat, plus a massive loan.
so me and the wife(mostly me) have saved up $20,000 to buy our first boat.
i had a preference for a sail boat. the major drawback of the sail boat was interior size.
as i plan to home school our bump, i will need quite a bit of space, and for 20K we could not get much of a sailboat. we would need about 80-120K for the correct size.
so i have settled on a trawler of some sort.
40-50' range.
one master, one bunk. lots of interior living space.
we plan to initially loop, then maybe explore south America in 3-5 years.
all things a trawler can do. there are ways to get to europe if we wanted to, but cruising europe, is expensive... so maybe not.
i have run into a ton of semi-displacement yachts in our price range.
i am going to stress, we are in no hurry. if we could go 2-3KTS for 5-8NMPG we will. we will be adding a ton of solar, hopefully 3000 watts.+/-
so the first question, at super slow speeds can you get massive NMPG?
also i am a diesel mechanic. so please do not inform me of diesels being at low load for an extended time.
i am avoiding 2 stroke.
any input is welcome, and FYI sometimes my ideas are a bit out there, be kind.
i am 30, from new york.
i have a wife, and a bump.
i have been looking to full time for about 4-5 years now.
the reasons are mainly financial.
i cannot see buying a house, and paying $4500-6500 a year in property tax, plus upkeep, plus electric, heat, plus a massive loan.
so me and the wife(mostly me) have saved up $20,000 to buy our first boat.
i had a preference for a sail boat. the major drawback of the sail boat was interior size.
as i plan to home school our bump, i will need quite a bit of space, and for 20K we could not get much of a sailboat. we would need about 80-120K for the correct size.
so i have settled on a trawler of some sort.
40-50' range.
one master, one bunk. lots of interior living space.
we plan to initially loop, then maybe explore south America in 3-5 years.
all things a trawler can do. there are ways to get to europe if we wanted to, but cruising europe, is expensive... so maybe not.
i have run into a ton of semi-displacement yachts in our price range.
i am going to stress, we are in no hurry. if we could go 2-3KTS for 5-8NMPG we will. we will be adding a ton of solar, hopefully 3000 watts.+/-
so the first question, at super slow speeds can you get massive NMPG?
also i am a diesel mechanic. so please do not inform me of diesels being at low load for an extended time.
i am avoiding 2 stroke.
any input is welcome, and FYI sometimes my ideas are a bit out there, be kind.