Beneteau 57 sailing to catalina

new 2008 Beneteau 57 sailing at 10 knots with North 3DL sails and Liesurefurl in-boom furling by Barrett Canfield, South Coast Yachts in San Diego

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[Apollo9733us]

Ok we have the million plus dollar 57 foot. Beneteau. I would also prefer the fractional rig. Hunter seems to be the one I keep looking at. Their new 50cc is absolutly beautiful and half the price. Any comments?

[sdbeneteau]

One thing that surprised me early on in my sailboat career was how sailboats grew in complexity and price exponentially. the 50 Beneteau is well under $500k very well loaded also. The custom 62+ from CNB (Beneteau's custom yard) is well over $2 million. If the 50 is in your budget, choose her. If you wanted a semi custom 57-58' sailboat to cruise the world, the Beneteau is actually a bargain on the "big sailboat" market. check out the new 58......wow! and less money than the 57 was.

[sdbeneteau]

This boat, as equipped, is about $1.1 million U.S.

[tomperanteau]

@plbuster Our plans are for the south Pacific and avoiding areas that have pirates. The south Pacific doesn't have a lot of pirates and has much friendlier islanders. We also plan to stay far enough off-shore so that they could not reach us. Power boats are much more limited in their range and fuel costs are just going to increase with time.

[plbuster]

@tomperanteau Dem pirates got boats too...an' dey aint afraid of usin' 'em. Best bet is to have some serious firepower onboard...maybe a .50 cal Machinegun...

Or...you can sail as part of a regatta (like many do down there)

Or...you can avoid those areas altogether (unless you have some weird hankering to sail through the Suez Canal or the Strait of Malaca or whatever...Its a big ocean out there.

[tomperanteau]

@plbuster Agreed. If push comes to shove, we won't be close enough for anyone with an AK to get to us. That would not fit into our plans.

[plbuster]

@tomperanteau It's not the hull you have to worry about; bullet holes can be plugged with...plugs. It's kinda hard to plug bullet holes in humans the same way. Takes a bit more than a hammer, a knife, and a broomstick.

[tomperanteau]

@yammer123 Sure the hull can survive AK47 bullets. Because the AK won't be able to travel far enough off-shore to shoot at this boat.

[tomperanteau]

@plbuster Well-stated.

[plbuster]

A sailing "license"...what a bunch of nonsense. Learn how to sail on a small rig and work your way up. The hardest thing to do on the ocean is not sailing, nor heavy weather skills, but navigating without all the "bells and whistles" (using only a "log", a compass, a sextant, a chart, a nautical almanac). Of course, I'm not tallking about "rich man" sailing...

[yammer123]

CAN SOMEBODY ANSWER ME, CAN THE HULL SURVIVE AK 47 BULLETS? BECAUSE THATS THE REAL TEST OF A WORLD CRUISER

[yammer123]

@sdbeneteau JUST CURIOUS CAN THE HULL SURVIVE AK 47 BULLETS?