Full Keel Offshore, or Floating Condo Sailboat? $140,000 - Ep 201 - Lady K Sailing 

Speaking of $140,000 boats, last weekend I drove 6 hours to pick up a $2,000 Hunter 23. Gotta start somewhere.

I’m a full keel man myself. The Beneteau looks like something IKEA put together. 😂

I want to thank you for introducing me to sailboats that a person can actually afford having walked in with champagne tastes as so many people do. After all of my boat searching I had the stunning realization that a cheaper boat sails the same waves as an expensive one and it takes you to the same places as the expensive boat, just a little slower.

Mason 44 WINNER WINNER :) I was on one in Brentwood bay BC, absolutely stunning. the Bene and PS are good but the Mason is awesome. Same boat was in the last scene of Jewel of the Nile

I hate clickbait and appreciate you calling it out. It makes me respect your opinions more than I already did.

you have your sailor cruiser and your cruising sailor, the former sails, the latter uses a boat to go from A to B. the former knows why we would go with that 34 ft, the latter wont even know that maker. you bring that price tag to 110k for that PS, spend the remaning 30k on the upgrades and you have a all weather, go-anywhere boat you can handle alone, for decades to come. the oceanis is, for some, already an old boat. at the end of the day when all comodities and electronics eventually go out the window you want a proper vessel

Awesome great start good luck

Great video. Enjoy the boat show. Safe travels 🍻

Thanks for the great video. It's fun to see these boats. I hope you enjoy the boat show.

another great episode, thank you

Thank you for your videos! I watch a lot of sailing videos in preparation, and the bit here at the end where you discuss the two groups of sailers with respect to their time periods is such a great and succinct summary of the blue water topic that I have never heard anyone say so eloquently. Thanks again for! Quickly becoming my favorite sailboat channel. (Can’t wait for you to hit the water cruising again!)

Even today, the motion and sea-keeping of a solid, heavier boat keeps them very relevant for passage-making, and for me at least, preferable.

......the best! Nothing but......yes, I'm talking about "Lady K Sailing".

Another great video, you covered some great boats, I've had a soft spot for Mason and Pacific starcraft for quite some time. Thank you for your insight, and enjoy the boat show.

Hi Lady K; I've gotta say I love your videos.

Hello from Halifax! I have been watching your channel for a few months now with great interest. In the meantime I have taken a few sailing lessons and am looking to get a boat to gain some experience. I am sure there will come a time over the next few years when I would love to have a bigger boat...thanks for the great videos!

I think the difference between those two types of boats can be summed up as follows: Most comfortable in port, or most comfortable at sea.

Cheers to you.

You’ve found a good niche. Good reviews! In 2019 we found our gem. We are now “cruisers”. In 2023 we leave for the Erie Canal and ultimately the Bahamas. Our gem is a 1978 Islander Freeport 41. This is a floating condo! Plenty of room to stand up and move around. We carry 200 gallons of fresh water, 200 gallons of diesel to run our 75 hp Yanmar Diesel. We are adding solar and water maker in the spring. We are a 34,000 pound, full keel, ketch sailboat with a bow thruster. We can go anywhere. Maybe we’ll see ya in Lake St Clair as we pass through.

Thank you ❤⛵ great Vid! I just enjoyed 10 days sailing Croatia on a 36 ft Bavaria, which had 2m hight inside for me as a 1,95m big guy but it was clapping even over 2m waves, that really sucked

I’m a traditional gal. Our 1st boat is a westerly so our next step is another traditional but bigger for long distance living

I Loved that Pacific Seacraft and the Mason!! Even though the beam on the Pacific Seacraft is narrower than the Beneteau, I dislike that linear galley, and that table is just in the way. !

the beneteau moorings were built to a spec for Sunsail for the charter market. factory boats altered slightly for a large customer

Been binge-watching your channel since finding it a week ago. Love it! First time ever subscribing. Close to retirement. My dream is cruising the Caribbean from December to May, then living back in Ontario during the warm months. Don't want to spend time getting there and back. Would love an episode about how and where to store a sailboat in the Caribbean during hurricane season.

I was born into the GPS-World in 1996. I have to say I still have a burning love towards the older design of full keel, go absolutely anywhere style of sailboat. Take care of your boat and your boat will take care of you in the roughest of sea ways. I dream of the day I’ll get an older design heavy boat, in my wildest dreams a yawl maybe a ketch.

Being an old salt and having done a few miles back in the day, all you say is true except the part about cruising guides. They were out there, just not as many or as easy to find as these days, but if you were headed to any destination that cruisers went to, you could find a cruising guide. Mexico, Caribbean, South Pacific, etc. I never had any issues finding cruising guides.

Safe travels!

Your right, I don't love the "Don't buy" or "Don't buy ... until you watch this video" but I wouldn't call it click bait. I enjoy your videos and i appreciate the work you put into talking about each manufacture and history of each boat.

I’ve got the Oceanis 43 great fast cruising boat easy to handle and maintain.

I’ve been looking at that Mason for a few weeks. I think it’s the prettiest boat I’ve ever seen

Love your videos, would love to know your thoughts on Sabre Sailboats

Thank you for the videos, your explanations, and lack of BS. Could you look into Aero Sails?

Agree with you 100%

Good job

Mason 44. Absolutely!

Hope to bump into you at the show.

Love the insights, your intel and train of thoughts on these boats to buy. Like I said many times learning a lot from your channel. Is it possible to do an episode about buying boats off kijiji? They seam to have sail boats almost tgtbt. Would also love to hear your insights about how you would go buying a boat off kijiji to get it to marina in Ontario where they require insurance and how to protect against existing leans, issues or whatever other problem you can think of getting it from such a source. Or is it better just to avoid kijiji all together.

Nice to finally see a couple of quality boats - The Mason 44 and the PSC 34. However, I do have a couple of quibbles. First I have a lot of trouble thinking of a 1990 bat as an "old" boat. Perhaps that is because I sail a 50 year old boat and just sold my 86 year old boat. Also I don't think of Masons as rare since there are several here in Southwest Harbor, ME. Mason built one of the best real cruising boats. Now my second quibble. The Pacific Seacraft is NOT a full keel boat. PSC's had long fins with skeg hung rudders. Even so, they are good offshore boats. Also when I look at the interiors of the PSC and the Beneteau side by side, I see good interior for a boat designed to be sailed (the PSC) and as you say - a floating condo. I am in the camp that prefers the Mason and PSC over the Beneteau type boats, however I still have some issues with these new boats 😆.

The boats you're showing are all interesting in their own right. I'm enjoying this series. Just want to ask if you've seen any ketches that have you saying "Hmm...".

I was thinking about the “negative” angle on that video, which I had not seen from you before. And sure enough, you set it straight. I give you my greatest respect for talking about it! Now don’t go all PC on us, keep it coming straight up.

Tim Im sorry to hear you are not going to be at the show Friday. Ill be sailing Saturday. I had hopped to come by and meet you....

I too hate click bait channels and avoid them !

Man! I really enjoy your content! I just wanted to ask if you have ever done anything on McGregor 65 pilothouse?

digging the blue led accent in the background

Beneteau 41 (41.3 marked) that you thought it wasn't a charter boat was actually a charter boat and she was in Moorings (sunsail) fleet... Only Moorings names their fleet with weard model numbers, Beneteau's (Leopard's as well)... edit: as you too mentioned later on LOL

Not a 140k boat but the Nickolsen 48 is my dreamboat, full keel ftw all my boats had big keels and no keel bolts to worry about

On my way to the show now. Where are you gonna be this afternoon? Cheers Jeff

Thanks, how about including more multihulls in these excellent videos please?

In 93 I assisted in the build of a wooden Mason. This boat was built to go anywhere under any conditions and pretty near bulletproof. If I could find it I would buy it and not care about the cost.

The Mason is a very pretty boat.

You mentioned J Boats. Having owned a J-24 I loved the way it sailed. Today, if I were spending $140K I would be looking at a J109. Wonderful blend of livability, albeit on a scale like the Pacific Seacraft, but for the time spent actually sailing, I think it would be a far more enjoyable experience. So how about an older J for one of your segments? Love the channel

I'm a robust as possible as long as I have room to comfortably stretch out kind of person when comparing boats of the same price. However being a function over form kind of guy I will be waiting forever for that longer bullet proof boat with simple interior and no pazzaz to hit the market when I am ready.

I've got cruising guides for Bahamas for 1980's

mason in the same sentence as hinkley makes one sit up and listen and then you mention Karl Alberg ,I am all ears now i spent many hours plying the waters of georgia straight in a friends 37 ft Alberg and my own little beauty a 26 ft RAWSON ,rod rigging 150 genoa and spinnaker ,if you know what i am saying ,livin back on the Rock now ,where only the hardy serf the waves

I think if you are just doing off shore or bombing around the Caribbean or Bahama's then anything you buy will be fine. But as I get older and the world becomes more chaotic the more I want to go where there aren't people and for that, you still want a full keel boat that is bomb proof. Even with all of the modern electronics sailing to the out of the way corners of the world, you will still be weeks away from somewhere you can get help so you need to depend on your boat to keep you safe until you can get back to civilization.

What’s your suggestion on something between both of those sailboats. Seaworthiness and space luxury. So best of both worlds.?

Now that you're running out of money, how about the boat that started it all, the Tahiti Ketch? and it's derivations (many).

Thanks for the video. Hate I didn't get to meet you at the boat show. I'm currently shopping and my question is what boats would you recommend that give you the opportunity to be comfortable at anchor in the Bahamas but also have the ability to cross oceans if I decide to? I'm looking for the best of both worlds! Thanks....

Great videos, just keep being you, it works and works well. Know anyone interested in an Abbott 33? Now my serious question; Did you load the car with REAL maple syrup?! If so, I want in on that! Lol. If you ever make it around the south end of Detroit let me buy you a couple boat drinks and show you around my club sometime.

Funny you should mention click bait. I just watched a video of the top earning sailing channels and the ones notorious for click bait (ie: Lazy Gecho and Sophisticated Lady) are not on it. Keep up the great content.

Watch this mans sail to bahamas One sail from north east coast south to bahamas. It will give you an idea of his experience Listen to people that really talk the talk

I'm a Ted Hood fan

Maybe it's a combination of wanting to protect my Wife, and a bit on unease within myself, that I just could not trust a boat with a bolt on keel and an unprotected rudder, especially if I wanted to cross Oceans in it. And I think that is what it comes down to really.....get the boat that fits your goals, do not force your goals on a boat that they do not fit. If I wanted to Island hop in the Caribbean and that's it, the boat(s) I'd be looking at would be different than the boat I feel I'd need if I planned to go from the east coast U.S.A to Japan.

I get the click bait, but I don't think the last episode was click bait. There was no woman in a bikini and you did not have a headline titled something like, "I am finally done with sailing," Still, it would be interesting to see how the last episode did compared to 199 and201. Anyways, keep up the good work. Thanks, man.

I feel called out on the J boat comment

Don't forget the Ketchup chips!!!!!!

Three finger pain killer is the ticket! Always enjoy your videos Man.

That’s odd, because Immediately clicked on this video but it took a few days for me to watch the other video because of the title… glad I ended up watching though, and I agree with you 100%… the clickbaity bikini-babe channels get much less love from me nowadays than the more practical, useful info type videos like these and Andy at boatworks.

Can someone tell me how much of a problem will a full keel be in the Caribbean or Bahamas ??? because you always mention it . I’m in the full keel camp myself but have no experience of cruising

What are some of the cheapest full keel boats 38'-42' ?

Good post. I chartered a Beneteau 41 Oceanus last season. Solid boat, with a Yanmar. BUT, the interior quality of materials and hardware was "made in China" so to speak. Pay all this $$$ for a boat and watch the particle board and badly plates hardware start to go in 5 years. The boat was a 2016 and was already showing signs of interior hardware failing. Too bad, and no thanks. I'm fairly new to this, so I'm asking, am I wrong?

See you at the show Harley and Janice ex sv Folly.

the pacific seacraft doesnt hava full keel its fin with skeg.......so its kinda is your inbetween boat

That's a lot of keel: kind of restricts the ports you can land upon arrival but great if you only want the trans-oceanic experience.

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Sorry, but you are down to earth and decent and worth watching on a regular bases. I just want to see you sail a sunfish :)

I kinda feel like I'm in between the two and end up looking at HR,najad,swan,moody

I really agree with what you said in the beginning, I find it really gross that 99% of sailing videos have a scantily clad woman and a crimgy title.

that mason.. :)

Rank order pain killers, 1. ?, 2. ?

How can I reach you about helping me find a boat?

Does the Mason 44 have four reef points?

143 pictures = nothing to hide

So I’ve been watching your videos for about six months and today I decided to join. It is because of the algorithm issue and I agree with you. I appreciate the information you provide and the way you do it. Real boats on real sites that I can go to after and check out. Thank you. Can’t get to Annapolis this year and that makes me sad. I would like to have met you. Maybe I’ll fly up to your neck of the woods one day for a Thursday night race and volunteer to be rail meat for you!

Love the episodes. Thank you. A teleprompter rig isn't too hard to come by. You can even make one. I think it would help the production of your episodes. Have you ever been to Ybor City?

Hi, I really appreciate your expertise on all boats from 20K to 140K. What you think about this boat, please let me know 1981 Corbin 39 $120,000 Thank You, Ben San Pedro, CA

So sad. Just watched this youtube video: "Hurricane Ian 🌀 Damage @ Charlotte Harbor Boat Storage, Safe Cove, Gasparilla Marina, Palm Harbor"

How do I contact you?

Ironic, your ad for Patreon was interrupted by an ad for Oreos and Rustoleum.

thank you for your quality content, as you say bikini free!!

second hand prices are a joke at the moment. wait for a year and buy 50% cheaper

do not worry about clickbait in the title. you will always steer a lot more traffic to your channel and be able to grow, which should also be very beneficial for all your current subscribers and fans of the channel... to be honest, the negative impact of "clickbait titles" from your subscribers should be negligible and most are forgiving as we all know that this is part of the shitty system and you have to deal with the algorithm and "humans" as best as possible... as long as the video itself does not suffer and the provided content is good, everybody will welcome the "clickbait to success" routine that should also have the corresponding and inviting thumbnails to go along with:))) Cheers. and btw.. if you stopped watching some channels for their clickbait and provocative thumbnails than the content in the videos was probably not good or to your liking to begin with... as I believe you would still watch those channels despite any clickbait if the actual content was honest and of good quality.

It's called negative bias and it's the same sort of thing you see in media like Fox news and other mainstream entertainment. The way you used it though was way less nefarious and actually quite clever for one I remember about charter crafts, so I wouldn't worry much about it as long as the actual content is compelling, which I've enjoyed thus far, quite a bit. One suggestion, if anything, would be to vary the price ranges more. It seems like you cover mostly six figure vessels, maybe dip down a bit for the poorer recreation allowance folks, or the live-aboard diy types slummin' it up in the 20-50k range, that should grow your audience loads I'd bet. Cheers.

Pacific sea craft vs what a beneteau are you kidding me stout and sturdy always not to hate on French charter boat manufacturers but hey you have to be real one the pacific seacoast ocean going the other boat you can dip your feet in the pool but they are not the same

I think this price range deserves another pass. Surely there are other respectable options to discuss at this price point than the few covered in this video.

IGNORE the freaking snowflakes... We like what you do ❗💪

Im a fan of the old school boats and bikinis

Teak deck is gone bro

Guess not many vessels left in Florida.... Most blown away.......

You do a good job but try to use nautical terminology as in bow instead of front or downstairs instead of below . You would attract more serious sailors to you channel , if you are thinking newbies will not understand the terms here is your chance to educate them . And it’s actually a safety issue if I am sailing with you and you use the wrong terms my 65 years of sailing brain might have to pause a second and it could prove a fatal second .