I've owned a much larger boat, sailed the waters of Chesapeake Bay, Florida Keys, BVI, but yesterday was just about as good as it gets. My wife and I spent the afternoon sailing our H23.5 at Cave Run Lake near Morehead, Kentucky. A bit overcast sky, but a very steady wind coming from the east allowed us to begin our "cruise" sailing upwind and like all gentlemen sailors are supposed to do, come home downwind.
We shared the lake with a couple of fishermen, no Skeedoos, wake boards. The trees were firing beautifully and we were having a ball. Our gourmet lunch from Subway was eaten while we relaxed under a beam reach. It was a lovely day.
I guess my point here is that big boats are great and you can certainly enjoy extended cruises in comfort on them, but as far as the pure joy of sailing, it doesn't require 35 feet of fiberglass to have a wonderful time. I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, but here's to us, the sailors without hassles group!
We shared the lake with a couple of fishermen, no Skeedoos, wake boards. The trees were firing beautifully and we were having a ball. Our gourmet lunch from Subway was eaten while we relaxed under a beam reach. It was a lovely day.
I guess my point here is that big boats are great and you can certainly enjoy extended cruises in comfort on them, but as far as the pure joy of sailing, it doesn't require 35 feet of fiberglass to have a wonderful time. I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, but here's to us, the sailors without hassles group!
I'm jealous - the lake I'm on is owned by the power company, and they lowered the level about 6 ft more than normal over the last 3 weeks or so, to do maintenance on the dam feeding the power plant. Most all launch ramps are now exposed, and since I have about 2.5 ft draft, plus the height of the trailer bed, I needed to haul in mid Sept to make sure I could do it before winter. I've lost out on at least 4 or 5 beautiful days.
