27 Feb 2024 If you think a 5 8 meter boat is to samll you have a mental problem 

His 9ft Elusion was even smaller. I've not heard anything about Matt for a long time.

I lived and sailed on a TES 550 Master ( Sailboats from Poland ) , not a big problem. I also took charterguests out sailing almost every day here in Spain. I sold the boat with good profit , and bought a 35 feet. I hated the boat . Now back in 22 feet again . ( I wrote before about small boats ) Have a nice sailing summer. I will move onboard in april again !

Hello Mister Sven. I would like to know what do you do the day your boat is finished ? Do you sell it ? I ask you that because i'm interrested to sail since min 10 years ago and i'm almost finish my carreer and love sailing but the prive here in France to leave a boat in a marina it's calculate for a millionar.I follow Yan Quenet and you and he found the perfect solution to go for big sailing and fun for a modic amount of money. My question is : do you sell sometime one of your boat ? Thanks and regard

I have had over 45 boats in my life ( only 2 X wifes ). I went bigger and bigger finished on 35 feet , lots of space , but new sails expensive. I sold it went to 29 feet Contest , sold it bought a 27 feet Adagio 27 ( same hull as Allegro 27 ) , sold it , Now back in 22 feet . Same size as i has as young but never design. Little to polish, easy to sail 7/8 rigged. I lived onboard 6 months 2023 , this year i will sail here from Sweden to Barcelona. Love the size and weight !

I believe you can build yourself a comfort in a small boat upto 20ft, but it's just going to be all custom parts. Those who buy ready parts for every single problem and are not problem solvers and engineers by their nature, won't ever understand how you can even enter a small boat. Most of the people I know measure life in terms of houses sizes at least 100m2 + and they apply it to any living space including boats. I believe this is a mental problem in a nutshell you are talking about. Also this mental model is forced by trends, government and other "respected" institutions. I hate the fact that people who are clear of this stupid believes still have to explain this to the people who are hostages of those mental problems. I've done this for last maybe 10 years and at some point just fed up explaining benefits of the small boats to them. Now my approach is to just say "you know better what is best for your" and don't waste my energy and spend it on designing custom parts instead.

There is an impressive list of boats smaller than 5.8 meter that have crossed oceans like the Tinkerbelle Fathers Day and more but my name memory is getting bad.

Also Gerry Spies Yankee Girl I think it was 10 feet

@@SvenYrvindExlex And of course Hannes Lindemann crossed the Atlantic in a boat one person could pick up and carry.

He did it in two differnet boats One Faltboat one dugout @@cornishhh

@@SvenYrvindExlex I'd forgotten about the dugout.

i.e. yes, courage and will are assumed@@homie3461

Yes, that is a requirement for a liveaboard boat for me as well. But just for sailing that is not a requirement.

I am 84 and agile thanks to having lived in small boats with no standing headroom and a flat with no elevator having to walk the steps. @@homie3461

​@@SvenYrvindExlex I'm 40, and you move better than I.

I said small and specied it with 5.8 meter doble ender with a 1.28 beam. Subscribers to my channel now know my intended use. If you like to cover everything it will be long like written by American lawers, like when you agree to Paypal and things like that. There have been a video every day for a long time now and there is not time for all the details

Strong relative to its weight, positive buoyancy possible, trailerable, solar-electric propulsion feasible, easy to handle, easy to maintain

5-Easy for a beginner DIY-er, who's never built a boat, to be able to build one. 6-Can literally be built in an apartment living room, on the 3rd floor, in the middle of a city, hundreds of miles away from a body of water. 7- and you don't need to be at the mercy of those a-hole boat Yard blankety-blanks, who claim, due to "insurance purposes", you can't work on your own boat and any work that needs done, has to be done by their $150 an hour "craftsmen" and oh by the way we can't put your boat back in the water, because that delamination on the cabin top presents a safety risk, so you have to pay us the $5,000 to fix it, on top of the daily charge..... Sorry, bit of a rant there...🤬

8: You can put the mast up or down unaided. 9: You can put the boat on a trailer, on a small flatbed truck, or in a moving van. That would save you a lot of time and money crossing Panama or one of the surrounding countries. 10: You can use it on small inland waters as well as on the sea.

11: You don't need a dinghy.

Easy to get sails up , easy to sail ( do not need much force) , lighter weight , Easy to heat up , easy to clean, easy to polish. And as i am almost the smallest in the marina , people feel sorry for me so i always get invited to bigger boats 😊

Man adapts. At sea you do not need leg muscles, they get smaller. Arm muscles get bigger. Back on land the process is the reverse. No need to have leg muscles that are not needed. Lymph circulation: Sailing the ocean wave is not like being in a bed in an old peoples home. The boat is mowing all the time. That movement moves the bodys muscles and pumps the lymph system. I think you get a better lymph movement at sea than on land.

The first week in Azores I had small leg muscles after 78 days at sea. Then they grow back thats the miracle of adaptation. @homie3461

That is very reassuring.

6 pieds et 17 pouces cela fait 7 pieds et 5 pouces non ? Excusez moi, j'ai beaucoup de mal avec les mesures impériales.

@@marcyvon8404 188cm

They fit inside a 20 feet continer. Global 580 are made to race and plane and have deep draft tall Bermudan rigs. I like the balanced lug sail and short mast. I do not desire speed more than access tho shallow cruising grounds.

They are all gone