On A New Tack

We've sailed a few times, we want to sail more and we want to find out if we can actually live on a boat. After speaking with Jim at Bow to Stern Boating, we had learned that they would like to be able to have a 38ish foot monohull to add to their charter options. This is an interesting size boat.  It's plenty large enough to have a comfortable salon and galley, a nice cockpit, two decent size cabins and long enough to be able to reach a respectable speed (see my Tech Article to learn more about boat speeds ), but not so long that it is hard to find a dock and not so deep a draft that would make sailing it in the shallow waters of the Pamlico Sound a problem. The one notable downside is that in that length it is usually not quite long enough to have 2 heads, and at the end of the day, everyone wants their own bathroom! So, I went onto a few sites to start looking for used boats, surprisingly, quite old used boats (that happen to have been well taken care of).  Yac...