blue water cruiser

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Randy Corbin

Can an O'day 30 be sailed as a blue water cruiser? What up grades would be needed to make it a strong reliable blue water boat?
 
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Justin - O'day Owners' Web

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Randy - There have been a number of threads wherein the question of taking varrious O'days (and Hunters and Catalinas et al) have been discussed at length. Hit the archive with a search for 'offshore' or 'bluewater.' The short version is this - correctly equipped and maintained, and adequately captained, almost any boat can be safe in most conditions. At the same time, there is a storm out there that will sink anything anyone's built yet. So it becomes a question of margin. How much margin do you want? Me - I'm fairly risk tolerant, but I like to minimize risk all the same. I wouldn't take an O'day 30 across an ocean but I would sail offshore passages along relatively nearby coasts - for example I wouldn't want to sail to England on one from Maine, but I'd sail from Maine offshore to the Islands. The difference is that I can more than likely make a port from the time of a hurricane warning. YMMV, Justin - O'day Owners' Web
 
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