This photo shows the St. Johns River meandering through its 141 nautical miles flowing NORTH.

As mentioned in the previous post, I am preparing for returning to live ON the St. Johns River in a monohull sailboat from 36 to 40 feet in length.

I wrote this book under my pen name MR Valentine several years ago describing how to purchase a sailboat as a long time landlubber! At that time I thought I would be purchasing a catamaran like the Gunboat on the cover of my book. However after watching a video comparing the monohull to the catamaran, I realized I would rather have a monohull.

Why?

The narrator of the video stated that passing over waves on a catamaran can sound like the constant shooting of a 12 gauge shotgun!

Also in my recent studying of sailboats for sale, I found that used catamarans of comparable size to monohulls were way more expensive!

Of course, before I purchase I plan to try out the sailboat and I will do it both with a monohull and catamaran.

More in next post!

Hugh Simpson