July 24, 1979: Across the Atlantic in a 10-foot sailboat ...
He designed the new boat, "Yankee ," to set a world record as the smallest to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The 750-pound vessel was equipped with four sails (main, two jibs and a spinnaker ...
Best Boats To Buy For Traveling The World
For about the same price as a small house ($250,000), you can call this boat your home. Hallberg -Rassey make seriously well constructed and spacious sailing …
Top 10 Favorite Affordable Bluewater Sailboats
This boat is the very definition of a "stout cruiser". Alajuela 38. 5. Tayana 37: The Tayana 37 is the second Perry-designed boat to make my list, and deservedly so as many far-flung anchorages around the globe have hosted a T37. This boat is in many ways Bob's answer to …
How Big A Sailboat To Cross The Atlantic Ocean? (Explained)
For crossing the Atlantic Ocean, you should aim for a boat that is at least 30-40 feet long. An experienced sailor can do with less. The smallest sailboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean was just over 5 feet long. The record-holder is Hugo Vihlen. While this is a valid question, there are many factors to consider beyond size.
Small but Mighty: The Case for the Day-Sailor Lifestyle ...
With a small, portable sailboat, you simply don't have many of the financial stressors to begin with. Keeping the boat on a trailer eliminates slip fees. You are your own haul-out crew. The thought of insuring the boat doesn't even cross your mind when the deductible is often more money than the boat is worth.
Best Boat for Rough Seas, Rough Water Boats | Boating Magazine
Originally specializing in high-speed boats and offshore racing, MPYD now brings its fusion of performance and aesthetic standards to a wide variety of boat designs. When asked about the search for the perfect soft-riding boat, Peters laughed. "Think of these ideals: soft-riding, dry and fast," he said. "Now, pick two.".
Famous Small Boats - Microcruising
75 Certainly this ranks as one of the great small boat passages of all time. 1866: 26' Red, White …
Production Boats That Have Circumnavigated | Sailboat ...
Boats must have crossed either the Pacific or Atlantic oceans or both. Roaring 40's even better. 2- Boats shall have been, for the most part stock. No structural improvements, hull stiffening, chain plate mods, rudder mods, added bulkheads, drastic port …
Undaunted – the 42-inch yacht still hoping to become …
The boat has two watertight hatches: a small one set into the large one. The large hatch opens and locks over the back of the boat to act as a work table and guard against getting pooped.
Epic Voyages in Small Sailboats - PDRacer.com
Epic Voyages in Small Boats A Speck on the Sea: Epic Voyages in the Most Improbable Vessels. If you think it is amazing when someone accomplishes the Texas 200 in a puddle duck then wait till you read this book! It is a collection of many epic and amazing voyages in very small boats. The Stormy Voyage of …
Crossing a Very Big Sea In a Very Small Boat | WIRED
There's madness, and then there's crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a 21-foot fishing boat designed for shallow water. Ralph Brown of Florida is doing just that. Go ahead and call him crazy. He ...
Sailboats | Sailing Boats | Discover Boating
Small sailing dinghies may be used on lakes or to teach the concepts of sailing while bluewater (or ocean crossing) boats can take you on a world circumnavigation. Sailboats in between can be raced in harbors or across oceans or alternately they can be cruised with friends or single-handed (sailed alone).
11 small catamarans for budget cruising | Wander By Sail
The Ocean Twins 38 is a less known bluewater catamaran designed and produced in the UK. The design is pretty unique, as it features a centre cockpit, which makes it super easy and safe to sail and creates two big separate spaces inside. …
Two brothers cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 21' boat | Salt ...
By Suzuki. October 20, 2009. Two brothers, Ralph and Robert Brown have crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Suzuki powered 21' Flats Boat. This voyage started on June 27, 2009 with the goal to set a new "Guinness Book World Records" for a Trans-Atlantic crossing and to raise money for "Wounded Heroes" from the USA, UK and Canada.
Catamaran size – how big a boat do you need – ocean ...
Even though my boat was quite light and had a reasonably big rig, I never felt unsafe on the ocean. With a 40ft boat on the sea, I feel like I am on something half serious. Advantages of size. After a lot of miles sailing and especially on my Pacific trip, I certainly dreamt of a bigger boat. The main reason was speed and also less pitching.
List of crossings of the Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia
In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. In 1965, Robert Manry crossed the Atlantic from the U.S. to England non-stop in a 4.1-meter (13-foot) sailboat named Tinkerbelle. Several others also crossed the Atlantic in very small sailboats in the 1960s, none of them non-stop, though.
Crossing an Ocean on a Kadey-Krogen 42 - Power & Motoryacht
And then he bought a boat and crossed an ocean. Twice. For Richard Bost, life is a series of adventures piled one on top of the other in a never-ending procession. For the past three years, he has been a man on the move aboard his Kadey-Krogen 42, Dauntless. The meteorologist-turned-teacher-turned-principal-turned-cruiser had never dreamed of ...
What you really need to sail offshore - Yachting Monthly
a slower boat and heavier loads on the rig. Small boat sailors can quickly find their yachts laden with too much and performance will rapidly diminish if overloaded. Be ruthless on weight and keep heavier kit at the bottom of the boat and along the centerline. Sailing the boat. Crew: Small boat sailors tend to be restricted in how many crew ...
What size of a motor yacht can cross the Atlantic? - Quora
Answer (1 of 4): This question is a classic question where the answer has to do with where you cross, when you cross, how fast you need to cross and how nice a trip you want to take. Atlantic crossings have been done in very tiny boats. I assume they were pretty stressful and not much fun. As a...
5 small sailboats for sailing around the world ...
Consider this scenario: two boats crossed the Atlantic on a 4,000 nautical mile route. The small boat averaged four miles an hour, while the big boat averaged seven miles an hour. If both started at the same time, the small boat will have completed the crossing two weeks after the larger sailboat! Less spacious
15 Top tips for an Atlantic Crossing - Yachting World
The Atlantic crossing season occurs every winter. In the months leading up to Christmas, some 4-5,000 sailors will cross from Europe to the Caribbean on one of …
The Best Sailboats for the High Seas? - Practical Sailor
I have reservations about any ideal boat list, but Kretschmer, who reviews boats for Sail Magazine and whose most recent book Sailing a Serious Ocean is available in our online bookstore, has the ideal background for this sort of work, and a list like this is undeniably helpful for wannabe cruisers who need a place to start their search.
Best Ocean Boats | Discover Boating
Checking out our Boat Finder tool is an excellent way to find the best boat for you and your family, but if you want to limit your search to the best boats for ocean boating, there are some special considerations to take into account. Filter your search by "Boat Offshore" on the Boat Finder, and you'll find you're left with nine choices. 9 Best Ocean Boats
36] We Bought A CHEAP SAILBOAT - A Bluewater Yacht For ...
Join us as we go inspect and survey our new-to-us bluewater sailboat, a fiberglass Tayana 37 from 1976, designed by Bob Perry. We moor Kittiwake in Cagliari ...
Ancient maritime history - Wikipedia
Ancient seafaring Maritime prehistory. There are indications as stone tools and traces left on a rhinoceros skeleton that suggest early hominids crossed the sea and colonized the Philippine island of Luzon in a time frame as early as 777,000 to 631,000 years ago.. The earliest sea crossings by anatomically modern humans occurred around 53,000 to 65,000 years ago, when Australo-Melanesian ...
Sail Far Live Free - Relent to Water Wanderlust!: Go Small ...
So there you have it, 5 little yachts that can take on the world or simply draw admiration and longing stares at your local dock. As you can see in most of the examples above, a small cruising sailboat doesn't necessarily equate with a small purchase price. These are little boats for living large on a …
The right yacht for an Atlantic crossing – Yachting World
So whatever boat you have right now, the chances are that she'll be fine for an Atlantic crossing with a bit of extra preparation. You don't have to let waiting for the 'right' boat put ...
40 Best Sailboats, Types of Sailboats & Manufacturers ...
30. Swan 44. A strong, robust cruising boat built for high-seas, blue water adventures, the Swan 44 was designed by Sparkman & Stephens, and the yacht's well-known Finnish manufacturers, Nautor Swan, produced 76 boats in a production run that lasted from 1972-1975.
Crossing the Atlantic by Sailboat Should Be Your Next Big ...
Ocean Caravan. For first-time crossers, the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, or ARC, which sails in a group, is a good place to start. The ARC draws about 280 to 300 boats and 1,200 participants ...
Best Small Boat for Offshore Fishing, Minimum Size Boat ...
Being unsinkable, the Whaler is one of the best small boats for ocean fishing. One school of thought from skilled mariners actually considers a smaller hull advantageous in large swells. Tom King, once a professional mate in Massachusetts, for years made the 20-plus-mile run to fish Stellwagen Bank aboard his 19-foot Midland ("a Nova Scotia ...