What boats have you owned?

[David Mathis]

In 65 years of boating, this is the first time an inventory has been drafted, a couple may have been missed and some are out of order:


1. Wooden row boat at age ten then:
2. 14' aluminum row boat with 1 1/2 hp 1947 Atlas outboard.
3. 16' fiberglass canoe
4. 12' plywood runabout with 22 hp Mercury then a 35hp Evinrude
5. 14" Traveler with 35 hp Evinrude
6. 10' GW Invader with a 70 hp Mercury (Yes, it was grossly overpowered)

7. Two Minimax built from plans
8. Sunfish
9. 18' plywood home built jet with modified 454 Chevy
10. 19' Sea Ray with 235 hp Evinrude outboard
11. another 16' fiberglass canoe
12. 28' Bayliner express cruiser
13. Bayliner 3288
14. two kayaks
15. 16' Glastron with 115 Mercury
16. 20' Glastron bowrider I/O
17. 43' Wellcraft Portofino *

18. 18' Checkmate Exciter w/ 150 Yamaha *

19. 10' Hydroforce with 9.9 Evinrude *
20. 25' Lowe's pontoon - work boat with derrick on bow along with vertical push bars. *
21. 13' plywood homebuilt 3 point hydro with 90 hp outboard
22. 18' fiberglass canoe *
23. 12' kayak*
24. 15' wooden rowboat



* boats still owned.



Being on the water is still as wonderful as it was in the mid 1950s. Now the 11 year old, soon to be 12, spends two weeks a year aboard with Grandpa and is learning to love being on the water regardless of if it's cruising, anchored at a beach, or at a marina.

[Wotname]

1. early 1970s - 16' plywood DIY Canadian canoe (still going strong for second owner).
2. late 1970s - 14' aluminium tinnie with pull start 35 Johnston.
3. 1980s - 30' steel Bollard Starfire Sloop.
4. 1990s - 28' carvel Sir Laurent Giles Wanderer Class Sloop (sail #2)
5. 2000s - 31' plywood Van DeStadt Super Dogger Sloop.
6. Current - 19' fibreglass couta boat with Yanmar YSE8 undergoing refit into a river launch.

[HeinSdL]

Laser very old
Laser new
420
X442

[Perna]

Nice thread....

Heron dinghy; one design racing, great fun
Lysander 17' cruiser; used to sleep 5 on there, great fun and learnt a lot
Caprice 19' cruiser; a step up as it was not wood
Enterprise dinghy 13'
Sea bat dinghy; which turned into a submarine downwind
Years of chartering in the Med and Caribbean during a professional life
H boat share; like a Folkboat, very wet
Kayak; just to get out on the water

[CLady]

Deeply regret selling my 1980 C&C 40
J24. Loads of fun
Still have:
Snipe. - more fun
Islander 36
Rough water 41

[Shaneesprit]

1970s - 80s Trimaran Nougat (Think Tristar - if you can tell them apart - you know more than 99.9%) - the fastest and most capable
Hired a couple of monos
30ft Tri about £30K over engineered by previous owner
22ft Hirondele £6k like a dingy with a cabin, rudder rake angle made it difficult to tack
25ft summer Twins £15k By far the favourite, it’s a little slow. Cabin layout is fantastic, a little bit hobby horse in 1m waves bigger and smaller it’s great, cabin. Space is just huge. Just often get asked on its size when visiting marinas as it’s Huge for a 25ft boat.
Admiral will not let me change it, even for a 46ft Tri.

[Apollo366]

Hobie Cat 14, 5 yrs, lots o fun
Piver 25 Trimaran, 3 yrs, many trips to coastal islands, CA
Piver AA37 Ketch, 13 yrs, Great boat, under powered rig, sailed San Diego to Acapulco to
Tahiti, then up to Hawaii
Hunter 37C, 5 yrs, sailed from NJ to St Croix, now for sale

[MV Caroline]

Originally Posted by Captain Graham

In my case I have owned the following
1. $200 - Flying Junior - 14 ft open day sailor.
2. $900 - Venture 17 ft - small crawl space cabin great for an overnight.
3. $2,000 - Yankee 24 seahorse - nice bigger cabin.
4. $1,600 - Kingfisher 20ft - twin keel sailboat that can cross oceans.
5. $500 - Alacrity 19th - smaller twin keel can not cross oceans.
6. $4,000 - Watkins 27 - coastal cruiser with a big cockpit.

At the time each of these boat fit my needs and budget.

I have had many boats

I'll try to remember them all
1, Hereschoff Dink Kitten, 10'
2. Lapworth Guppy 8'
3. Carter Pyle Kite 12'
4. Finn Class 16'
5. International Dragon class
6. 1924 Atkin schooner 32'
7. Kettenburg 38'
8. C&C 38'
9. C&C 43
10. Mathews flush deck MY 1972 68'
11. 1927 Seawanhaka Schooner 65'
12. Baltic C&C 51'
13. Santa Cruz 52'
14. (current boat) 54' trawler custom built on a Skookum hull


The Skookum will most probably be my last larger cruising boat. At my age, she's about all I can single hand anymore.

[NYSail]

1- Sunfish
2- 1977 cal 34 mk 3 (bill lapworth)
3- 1986 Pearson 36-2 (bill Shaw)
4- 2005 beneteau 423 (Jean Marie Finot)

[Grith]

Was that Owned our Own!
Also Boats is a rather loose term allowing me to really stack up the current fleet which has just grown further in retirement and currently needs some heavy trimming!
1. Imexus 28 TS Outboard Version
2. Imexus 28 TS Inboard Version ( being prepared for sale.).
3. Hobie Aventure Island Tandem Sailing Trimaran
4. Hobie Aventure Island Single Sailing Trimaran
5. UFO Foiling Catamaran ( new addition)
6. 2x sea kayaks
7. 2x white water kayaks
8. Hobie I11 inflatable pedal kayak/standup paddle board
9.Hobie I9 inflatable kayak with sail kit
10. Inflatable stand up paddle board.
11. AX2 inflatable dingy in poor repair!
12. 2.6m inflatable dingy with alloy floor.

Counting yachts, windsurfers, kayaks, canoes, dingy’s and assorted other water craft previously owned I am not up for writing a novel!

[Celestialsailor]

-Van De Stat 29 that I purchased from a builder in steel as a hull/deck/cabin in 1975.
-MacGreagor 21 in 1986 while I build a...
-Roberts 34 in steel (from the ground up).1986-1989.
-Olympian 34 found abandoned in the desert with a dead coyote in it. (1990-1996)
-Wilderness 40 that once I saw how thin the hull was, flipped it.(1996)
-Tartan Blackwatch 37 (1996-2000)
-Ingrid 38 (2002- 2005)
-Rawson 30 Pilothouse (2008-2010)
-Hallberg Rassy 35 Rasmus (2011-2014)
-Whitehall 14' pulling gig (2016- )
-Westsail 28 (2020-2022)
-Pearson 365 (2021- )
Many dinghies

[tbodine88]

12 foot cat rigged boat
West Wight Potter 19
Ericsson 32
Nimble Artic 26

[Wavehiker]

22’ Catalina
27’ Catalina
30’ Catalina
37’ O’Day
40’ Islander 40DP
44’ X-Yacht 442
46’ X-Yacht Xc 45
13’ Boston Whaler
18’ Angler
22’ Wellcraft Fishermen 232
Various hard bottom dinghies and inflatables

[MicHughV]

Ha....where do I start....

Skipping over the myriad of dinks, rafts, sailing dinks, and other flotsam and jetsam I've owned....too many to recount here.....

Roberts 38, hand built in steel from the ground up.....circa 1978....launched 1980.....home for next 15 years or so...
C&C landfall 43...how I ended with this boat is a long story...owned 10 years...
Beneteau 432....as above, was in the right place at the right time....owned 10 years...

Three fishing boats....from 15' to 24'. First powered by 50 hp , next by by single 200 hp Yamaha, last one with twin 150's.

For most all of this time, I have been a liveaboard, with short incursions to shoreside between boats..

[BaccaSean]

Originally Posted by lo2jones

Amel 41 were “garage finds”…boats kept in doors for a good part of their lives.

Similar to lo2jones, both with sub 400 engine hours:

• 2005 Hallberg Rassy 31 Mk 1
• 2006 Hallberg Rassy 43 Mk 1