[Public-list] crossing the atlantic

[George Dinwiddie]

The Coopers took Cookin' across the Atlantic a few years back.  As I 
recall, they had no problems on the Atlantic, but got a bit 
uncomfortable crossing from the Azores to Gibraltar.

  - George

frank jolly wrote:
> I have been looking for a boat suitable for passage making. possibly
> crossing the atlantic. Three boats within my budget are contessa 26,
> triton 28.5, alberg 30.  I can find one account of an alberg 30 crosssing
> or circumnavigating.  Jean-Du-Sud is the vessel name. I also could find
> one instance of a pearson triton leaving home. Atom. Surely there are
> more crossings.  Contessa has a long track record of atlantic crossings,
> but no instances of anyone ever standing up inside the cabin.  Nice boat 
> for elves. And so I can get a triton for half as much as an alberg. which
> translates into more cruising dough, and a lot less space . Does anybody
> have any ideas . I really like them both so much I am afraid to decide. I
> have found several A-30's I could afford,.  I just need some feedback. Is
> this a boat to go almost anywhere. Just because one person went around
> cape horn doesn't qualify the boat. It surely qualifies the sailor
> though. Somebody crosses the ocean in a dinghy . Now suddenly it is
> billed as a blue water cruiser. enough folks do it and I believe. I
> really don't know what I am digging at., I just can't get this A-30 out
> of my mind. Is that what happens when you go aboard one. Am I in love?
> 


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   When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
   I think how evening follows morn;            gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
   So many I loved were not yet dead,           http://www.Alberg30.org
   So many I love were not yet born.
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