Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell

Robert Perry, Old Sailboats, New Sailboats, and How to Choose Them


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Robert Perry is one of the most prolific, sucessful, and iconic sailboat designers of the modern age. He is known for designing the Valiant 40, Tayana 37, Tashiba 36, Baba 35, and many many more. His knowledge of sailboats is extensive to the point of making him a national treasure. 

We talk about older crusing boats ideal for beginning cruisiers, ie: good boats for beginning offshore sailors, CCA and IOR rules, design elements, the Dufour Arpege, selling my first boat, John Vigor's book "20 Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere," Alberg sailboats, chainplates, Albin Vega 27, small boats vs big boats, Contessa sailboats, Cape Dory sailboats, Pearson Triton, Allied Seawind, Southern Cross sailboats, foam-cored hulls, Westsail 32, the birth of recreational offshore cruising, the Mini Globe Race, sailboat statistics and ratios like sail area to displacement and ballast to displacement, different ballast types, overhangs, interiors, modern production offshore boats, the Carbon Cutter, consulting, the Norseman 447, hard dodgers, andmore.

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