Thank You all for your comments!
“The Cal35 Cruiser has a raised cabin surrounded by ten windows giving the occupants a 360 degree view of the bay you happen to choose as your anchorage. ”
This is pretty much what I’m looking for. The only problem is that it’s too big to sail by myself & too expensive.
“Compromises abound in sailboat design. In smaller monohulls it’s very hard to have the cabin elevated enough to get the kind of visibility you describe. Raising the cabin increases freeboard, which brings the center of gravity up and makes much more windage. Both of those are detrimental to the boat’s sailing characteristics. Windows are heavy and prone to breaking as jssailem points out, making them riskier in a higher sea state.”
Being an engineer, I’m well aware that windows are a serious weak point. Yes, everything is a compromise. He trick is to find the right balance.
What I’m considering would mostly be raising a portion of the cabin roof. Not TOO big a change in COG.
“Catamarans often have a more raised salon.”
Sorry, I‘m way too tradition to consider multihulls!
“Maybe look at a pilot house or deck salon…at least part of the cabin isn’t “in a hole”.”
exactly what I’m looking for…
“I think you are talking about the Pearson Triton 28, which has a raised cabin top over the salon. I think this Carl Alberg design was a pretty nice design. Raising the cabin to make headroom created the sides to install larger windows, while keeping freeboard of the hull relatively low. Everything is a compromise in a sailboat. The smaller the boat, the more significant the compromises need to be! If the cabin space is more important than the sailing characteristics, you eventually lean more and more toward a trawler.”
It may well be that it was a Triton that I saw.
Re: ‘Buccaneers“
I like the first one; It has larger cabin windows While being more of less tradional? The second one has a higher freeboard and too rows of small windows. I don’t like windows cut into what is essentially the hull. The third is more of the same, high freeboard, small ports, and an almost flush cabin top.
Re: Beneteau
The wrap around ports are great for letting in more list. Being as they cut the side beams of the cabin top, aren’t they a bigger risk to structural strength?
How did redsails become a thing?
Thank you all!
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