Luxury Sailboats

Once you know exactly how, where and when you use your dream boat, the next question to answer is what are the features of a boat is best suited for how I will sail the boat? " I think this question is the best answer across five dimensions: rigging, sail plan, keel type, interior and hull design in general. Many great books are available to discuss these considerations into any level of detail you want. Here's a quick overview.

hand rigging and sail plan to go in hand. Typically, there is a compromise between ease of handling of sailing and safety and flexibility. For example, a cat rigged boat with a mainsail and headsail, no large (think laser) is very easy to handle by one person because there is only one sail. If you surf day in a small lake or near the shore where you can take cover if things heat is a great platform, simple, easy to use, quick to implement. However, this is not a flexible design, because the wing can not be reef in the main blows. A sloop Marconi standard is a step above in terms of flexibility as it adds a second (head) veil that can be changed in size to accommodate changes in wind speed. In addition, these platforms today offer almost always at least jib furler, sails or both, making adjustments on the fly, simple and easy. It is certainly a device with sufficient flexibility to strong winds.

The disadvantage is that you have added a second sail to manage, edit and furl. In addition, the sloop is still quite limited in terms of changes you can make plans to sail. The cutter rig is the next step in the flexibility with 2 headsail and mainsail usually much smaller. This configuration can vary significantly greater in the configuration of sailing and a much broader range of wind on the beaches where the boat can be sailed comfortably. Compromise is a third party to manage sailing. Finally, double-master drawings ketchs-gigs-and offer the greatest level of flexibility and therefore greater range of wind speeds to navigate comfortably. The obvious disadvantage is the complicated two-masted, 4-6 sails. For my money, the sloop wins the Bay, the Great Lakes and coastal shipping, as I would like at least a cutting device for ocean passages, with the ketch and yawl be much better.

Keel of the forthcoming review of two major issues, how deep and what kind. deep keel provide greater stability (under heel) and greater angles of weather (wind), but limit the places where you can safely sail without running aground. For me, the question of depth is easy-riders should opt for deeper keel practice their sailing area, the difference on the legs of Wind can be dramatic. I recommend deep keel to another person who spends a lot of time to beat the wind (whatever). For everyone, the best is the shallowest, most cruising areas, anchorages safer and less chance of hitting something you go. The type, if you make offshore passages or even long passages coastal, I recommend a full keel runs better and gets much better "exploitation" of a shallow keel. Alternatively, if you do a lot of maneuvering around, I would not take a full keel instead of opting for the keel.

interiors range from almost nothing in the tank running, luxury flourished (microwave ovens, flat screen TV, DVD players). The simple rule is to match the type of sail interior. I think for all but the hard core racer, the budget will dictate here (more about that in Part III).

Finally, consider the type of hull together. I examine two dimensions: SA / D (sail area to displacement ratio) to estimate the overall speed and D / L (Travel length of report) for the overall stability and maneuverability. Is not a perfect measure and manufacturers tend to fudge the numbers (but t.