18) Would like to find a small 12v icemaker 19) upgrade batteries from 300 to 400+ 20) might even replace my in mast furling main for a boom furling main (my mast has never jammed going in but I'm sure if it ever did, it would happen at the wrong time). 21) 100' of additional chain that can be linked into the anchor chain 22) Bulwagga anchor and hugh Fortress storm anchor 23) maybe fix my st4000 auto-pilot for backup 24) maybe an outboard lift (I do it by hand now but I might get tired of that) Why do you ask?
Besides...maybe I can use it to lure women onto my boat I agree about the innerstay and I love your idea of raising it. I've also am mulling over adding a sprit to give extra room between the two head sails so I could run them both in light wind. My main hatches have been weakened by the sun so they do need to be replace. I sure don't want to be one who ends up calling the CG because the hatch broke and he was taking on water like the guy last year off South Carolina. I tell ya...it's refreshing to actually get helpful advice on improvements instead of the constant badgering because I sail a Hunter.
) to find a woman to go with, then I plan on taking some water bladers and just keeping them strapped down someplace in the cabin (there is an empty place just forward of the tank but conditions will determine if that is a good place). I'm thinking I will use a hand held pump to pump the water into the water tank as it drains. I also plan on trying to catch rain water somehow. Still thinking on that one. There are only a few legs where water become an issue. From CR to Hawaii. From Hawaii to Alaska. From Azores to Bermuda. From India to Northern Africa (trying to stay away from the middle east). I'm not sure about this but I think the Islands in the south Pacific will have water but some are far apart so add them as well. All the rest of the legs I should only be a handful of days away from land. I wish I had a larger water tank but I'll find a way. I may not even need any of that exta water but I would prefer to have too much then too little. Did I mention that I plan on having an emergency, handheld watermaker? I hope I never have to use it. They sound like a pain in the butt
I bet the kids will have a blast and the wife will be stressed My trip...I'm going to leave Galveston and the direction I go will depend on the wind. If it's from the south then I'll follow the nothern gulf coast to NO then Tampa then the keys then Bahamas then DR, then PR, then island hop to Venezuela, then on around to Brazil, then back around northern South America to Panama, on up to CR, then cutting to Hawaii, over to Alaska, down the west coast to Chilli and then Island hop to New Zealand. I'm thinking that will be close to 2 years worth. After Australia, it's Island hopping all over the tropics and southeast Asia including Japan and India, then go through the canal to Med sea and that's when I do a lot of land cruising on a bicycle after docking in each port (I want to see all of Europe). How I cross the Atlantic is up in the air. I would like to go to Azores and then Bermuda but it may be faster to go south and cross with the trade winds. Tons of time to plan that leg of the trip. I'd like to hear from anyone else that plans to go as I've received a lot of good advice from this site. It would be nice to hear from someone that has been ther before. Ready to go! Tom S/V At Last