I am in a process of moving from a 24 to a 27 ft boat and the complexity of the systems is not even close. It does not have anything to do (directly) with the LOA, but with the fact that any (most?) 24-25' boat is very simple (outboard, hardly any electronics, no water system to speak of, no real marine head, very simple electrical system). The next step (at least in my mind) is the 27-29' range, where you get the inboard, electronics, complex electrical system, head, water (pressurised and often hot and cold). And all of this adds to the maintenance effort. I don't know if it is 10x, but probably close. I don't know if moving up to 30-34 or even bigger would add that much complexity, but you probably get more systems (windlass, genset, AC, fridge, heat etc. etc.). The bigger the boat, the more stuff we are willing (wanting to?) put onto it and the more maintenance (and headaches) involved.
Marek (in Ottawa) Message: 4 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:10:09 -0300 From: dwight veinot <dwightvei...@hfx.eastlink.ca> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Stowing stuff on your boat Message-ID: <2508CEF22CC54FB585246E1C683261FD@your4dacd0ea75> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Well said Colin...I'm not quite up there yet but as my boats have gotten bigger as the years went by and with more systems on board I have noted a definite increase in work required...for a while I thought I was just getting older but that was only fooling myself really Dwight Veinot C&C 35 MKII, Alianna Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Colin Kilgour Sent: April 18, 2013 9:25 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Stowing stuff on your boat Ouch! Actually, I would say the amount of maintenance work seems to increase proportionately with the square of the LOA. Or proportionately with displacement. (Guys considering moving up in size should keep this in mind) Nothing to do with build quality. More to do with the complexity of systems and overall mass/volume/surface area of the boats. Bojangles' displacement is about 11x that of a C&C 24 and the maintenance could easily be 10-11x as much. That said... when your boat is that demanding, you get to know your way around its storage lockers pretty well. Cheers Colin
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