40 best sailboats.

[pequod]

Something for us to chew over, maybe?

This list of the 40 best sailboats compiled by Cruising World is pretty comprehensive and would be close to my selection, except I would add a Northshore Fisher 37 for northern climes and a Rustler 42 for everything else!

https://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/40-best-sa...

What others would you like to add, or dismiss, from that list given your experience of them?

[MB140]

Mmm, personally I’d take an

Amel ketch 55 to cruise the world on.
https://ancasta.com/boats-for-sale/used/sail/amel/...

Edited by MB140 on Saturday 26th December 19:34

[Huntsman]

I'd put a couple of Westerly in there, Fulmar 32 sails like a 32ft dinghy. Oceanlord 41 would be a fab blue water boat.

Nic 55 maybe?

[MB140]

Huntsman said:

I'd put a couple of Westerly in there, Fulmar 32 sails like a 32ft dinghy. Oceanlord 41 would be a fab blue water boat.

Nic 55 maybe?

Nic 55 is a good shout. Done many a sail on them out of JSASTC in gosport.

[pequod]

MB140 said:

Huntsman said:

I'd put a couple of Westerly in there, Fulmar 32 sails like a 32ft dinghy. Oceanlord 41 would be a fab blue water boat.

Nic 55 maybe?

Nic 55 is a good shout. Done many a sail on them out of JSASTC in gosport.

I guess we should include the Nic 32 on the list of all time classic designs?

https://www.pbo.co.uk/boats/nicholson-32-review-an...

[DeltonaS]

Def. not a list the average European would compile.

Just 1 Swan and no Dutch, German, Danish, or Italian boats present.

[blueg33]

Huntsman said:

I'd put a couple of Westerly in there, Fulmar 32 sails like a 32ft dinghy. Oceanlord 41 would be a fab blue water boat.

Nic 55 maybe?

I wondered whether the Fulmar would be in there. We had one for many years. She was used for family holidays down to the Med and racing. Pretty fast for a 32ft boat and very manoeuvrable as we found out when we had to tack up the Hamble in a force 6 and pick up a swinging mooring under sail.

[blueg33]

I would have expected to see an Oyster on the list, a Camper and Nicholson and maybe the ubiquitous Westerley Centaur which was everywhere when I was a kid

[Miserablegit]

Sigma 38 should be on there...

[blueg33]

Miserablegit said:

Sigma 38 should be on there...

The 33 is on my list

[Jaguar steve]

Best depends on what you need.

I'd be more than happy with a summer in the Med on board any of those listed, but in here the chest deep mud soup and evil bars of the Thames estuary many of the chosen yachts would mostly be a monumental pain in the rectal area to skipper and a smaller shallow draft yacht would be a far better weapon of choice for boaty fun.

[pequod]

From the Cruising World article I posted above;

''.... we decided to focus our concentration on production monohull sailboats, which literally opened up the sport to anyone who wanted to get out on the water.''

And bear in mind that CW is a N. American magazine (now website) it is hardly surprising that the list is peppered with boats most Brits with have never heard of, let alone sailed on!

Having said that, I am surprised they haven't mentioned A. H. Moody & Sons who sold boats over there? A popular long distance cruising choice would be the M42/422 and even the smaller ones are a good, solid yacht for most people.

[Ocean53]

I’ll stick with my Hallberg RASSY 53

[Oil Trash]

Lovely looking boat

[pequod]

Ocean53 said:

I’ll stick with my Hallberg RASSY 53

I don't blame you, nice yacht. Ever thought of adding an inner staysail to convert into a cutter rig?

[Ocean53]

I had it built with a removable inner forstay, but only used it once mid Atlantic to hold the storm sail.it’s attached at base of mast, so 10 min job to rig

[pequod]

Ocean53 said:

I had it built with a removable inner forstay, but only used it once mid Atlantic to hold the storm sail.it’s attached at base of mast, so 10 min job to rig

Not anticipating too much upwind work then?

A fixed inner is a pain, mostly, when tacking the heads'l, also it is an encumbrance on the foredeck that, on smaller boats, clutters the deck with addition and rarely used tackle, so your removable f'stay is the obvious solution as an occasional necessity to set a stormsail or, more likely, hoisting the shade!

P

[Ocean53]

And hammock👍

[ClaphamGT3]

I’d have picked the Contessa 32 over the 26, I agree about the Sigma 38 and I’d have put in one of the Beneteau/Jeanneau sub 25’ lift keel trailer-sailers as they get so many people onto the water as their 1st cruiser

[Audis5b9]

Ocean53 said:

I’ll stick with my Hallberg RASSY 53

Thats a proper yacht.