Our current boat is 26 feet long and sits on a trailer in our driveway. This is our (second) practice boat. The one we can afford to make more mistakes on. We bought it with the name of Webfoot which suits us just fine. It is a sail-/motor-boat, which means it doesn’t do either one of those functions very well. It has a 50 horse power outboard which doesn’t quite get it up on a plane and two sails which propel it forward but not with any astounding speeds. The advantage is that we can trailer it all over the place rather than be stuck in the same marina year in year out. The Columbia River can get somewhat monotonous… shall we go up or down river today?! So we like to explore nearby lakes or, if time allows, trailer it up to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands.
Webfoot has a king size berth under the cockpit which was one of the big selling points. Lots of space to stretch out!
The galley has standing headroom for the chief steward (that’s me!) and a nearby table provides lots of space on which to prepare food. We have a portable cooktop, a BBQ, and a Jetboil. We get pretty fancy with our meals on board. I will share some ideas on cooking in a small space in the future.
In the small bathroom we installed a composting head! The boat came with a porta-pottie which is just disgusting! Having a head that is private, doesn’t smell, and doesn’t need to be pumped out was very important to me. On our old boat we used the bucket-method, but that’s a whole other story….
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