How is spend some days on a Pocketship?
Posted:
Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:06 pmby fabio gionco
Hi friends.
I would like to know how is spend some days on a Pocketship.
I use to sail a precious dinghy that I build on lake (I made a kind of tent to spend some nights) and I'm dreaming about build a pocketship to make some short sea coastal travels (a week or less)
I think will be great if someone share with us details of this experience.
Cheers!
Re: How is spend some days on a Pocketship?
Posted:
Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:02 pmby truenorth
Fabio, PocketShip was designed to be a comfortable daysailer (where you go out for a few hours) and some short overnight trips, like a weekend. There are PocketShips in Australia and France and Japan. The designer had a 50 mile trip in mind when he drew it, going from Florida to the Bahamas. That is a lot more tricky than it sounds because there's the Gulf Stream and nothing in between, but it's possible, and a personal goal of mine. I'm sure it's possible to do a much longer passage, but that's not this boat.
Some people with finished boats have shared their stories. See a couple links below:
http://leeboatworkspocketship.blogspot. ... board.htmlhttp://leeboatworkspocketship.blogspot. ... ruise.htmlhttp://buildingpocketship.wordpress.com ... vernighter(I hope the owners don't mind driving some traffic there.)
Unfortunately, it seems that when people are done building, they stop typing. I'm about halfway done with mine. I hope to have some good stories to share.
Re: How is spend some days on a Pocketship?
Posted:
Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:25 pmby John C. Harris
If you're used to camping, PocketShip is bliss for a week at a time. A dry bunk and loads of convenient storage. Much better than a tent, and room for ten or twenty times the gear you could carry on your back. If you're used to plush accommodations on boats, PocketShip will feel like, well, camping.
Dan Segal's article about PocketShip in WoodenBoat had some good writing about long-term living in the boat.
Personally, I'd put my own endurance in PocketShip at around 15 days, though I've not tried it yet, alas. I had a colleague here at CLC who lived full-time, year-round on his Montgomery 15, a smaller boat.
I sailed to the Bahamas over the Christmas holidays, about 450 miles in total. It was in a plush 44-footer, a study in opposites with PocketShip. The weather was quite rough the whole time but it did nothing to dim my outlook on PocketShip's suitability for that crossing and cruising grounds, if in capable hands.