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I have a small day sailer right now, and so it's not really a question for right now but for in the future. One day I would like to be able to sail around the US and other parts of the world when I get a bigger boat, but I've had a question, how big of a threat are submerged shipping containers, I've heard that they can easily put a hole in the side of your boat but is this really true, and how hard are they to spot. I really appreciate helping me answer this question. Thanks!

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My husband and I bought a new (used) Catalina 250, sight unseen from several states over. We did get a marine survey which pointed out a couple small issues we were aware of, but no big issues. It’s been a general nightmare since then, but still for smaller reasons (water lines to sinks, impeller, etc). Today, however, my husband took the boat for a nice long sail over to Catalina and the mast snapped in half. Into the water. Fortunately no one was hurt, and I don’t know the full details since I wasn’t with him but I cope by planning so here I am.

Where do we go from here? It’s a 29’ mast. Can we find a similar sized mast and cut it down to fit if it’s too long?

Basically, ELI5 how to make this boat whole again without another $5-6k+? Is that even possible?

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I went to the Foundation for about 15 years, eventually working there for nearly a full decade. I became fairly close to many of the people who also worked there, but I left a few years ago so the news of this only made its way to me today. Saw the threads and thought I would help clear some misinformation I saw present in other threads.

  • The vessel was not a Hobie Wave, it was a Hobie Getaway.
  • I've seen the video, pay attention to the palm tree in the video: there is little to no wind. If you've sailed a Hobie Wave, you know they suck in those conditions. If you've sailed a Hobie Getaway, you know that it moves like a brick in those conditions. There is nothing the sailboat could have done to get out of the way even if they tried.
  • The area was in/adjacent to a channel, but there isn't much of an option in that area. The traffic can be very heavy both in and out of the channels, this is right next to Downtown Miami. You can only avoid traffic so much.
  • They had a safety boat. For about 5 years, I was the person driving the safety boat. We always did our best to keep things under control as much as possible, but you can only do so much. From jet skis being driven by dumbass tourists who don't know how they work to large tour vessels who are there every day multiple times a day, our experience with them was almost solely dictated on who was the person driving that vessel. I recall one incident (a long time ago now) where I had to floor it, almost sending one of the other instructors off the back of the safety boat, grab a kayak from the back, and slam my safety boat into reverse to keep them from getting run over by a tour vessel who didn't even try to slow down. These vessels not even trying to slow down/change course is, unfortunately, a very common occurrence.
  • These kids are there every day during the summer and every weekend during the year. They are extremely well known in the area. This is not a one-off situation where they went into new waters.
  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be respectful with what you say online. I use reddit frequently and this flew under my radar (granted, I wasn't subbed to here). I found out there were reddit threads from people who have never used reddit in their lives. A huge amount of people are still in shock and grieving.

My biggest point about this is that people involved are finding these threads and reading them, so we need to be careful about what we say online. We can have our own assumptions, I know I do, but we need to be careful about voicing this stuff online. We often forget there's another human behind the screen reading what we type, and on social media there's often many other people reading it. As we all know, the sailing community is a very tight-knit community, especially sailing in local areas. Even if we all try to make our own guesses as to what happened, let's try not to speculate and point blame as best we can. 2 kids died, 2 are still critical, and hundreds of people are in shock over all of this.

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I know this sounds like a really dumb question but cope with me for a second.

I've worked at sea a few years but only had my first sailboat for 1, a lovely 29ft fin keel cruiser that is great in light wind. I've been living aboard in summer and a few weeks in the winter and love living aboard so much. I solo sail 99% of the time and I've probably been out for around a couple thousand miles so far. But as a self-taught sailor i'd be lying if i'd say i've been through all kind of situations. I shy away and try to be in the harbor if i know it's gonna blow around 20kn although i've been caught in 24kn winds a couple times and I could manage reefing, heaving-to etc with little problems, other than my auto pilot becomes quite useless with over 1m waves and strong winds but that's ok.

I quite like my little boat but I'm considering switching to something in the 34-37ft range for a few reasons. One is that I do have friends visiting sometimes to go skiing and climbing, and having a slightly bigger boat to be more comfortable and fit a more decent dinghy would be great. Then it's a very light boat and kinda needs reefing in 8m/s winds and gets overpowered so easily although i can manage, but i'm wondering if a bigger boats handles heavy winds better. The other one is that my little boat gets bullied and gets thrown around quite a lot as soon as there's a bit of a swell and some wind. Which brings me to the last point which is I don't have an anchor locker let alone a windlass, and anchoring is a pain. I am really concerned about anchoring in anything but fair weather because for one thing it'd be hella uncomfortable but mostly it's just a pain in general.

Oh and lastly a little extra hull speed wouldn't hurt as while it's true the boat stays still for long periods of time (i liveaboard while i work) I also don't really care for sailing around the place for the sake of it, and when i do set sails is to go explore and I go fairly long distances on multi day trips. Starting next spring i will have extra time available and i plan to cruise more.

Now in all of this suddenly a question came to mind: what is actually the difference between a 29ft and a 35ft? I have only ever been on my little sailboat and I have zero clue how different it would feel. I understand every boat is different but taking two similar fin keels, how differently do they handle the wind? how different is the feel at anchor? Does a bigger boat feel safer in bad weather conditions?

Would be curious to hear your more experienced thoughts, especially from those of you that moved from a smaller boat to a bigger one and if you think it was worth it

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