I’ve never so much as heard of a Pandora until now so no, I’ve not considered one. I was put onto the idea of Corribee by a former client of mine who has some big fancy Benetau up in Scotland somewhere. We got talking about boats and when I mentioned I’d love to own one and finally indulge my love for sailing he said a Corribee might be my kind of thing – inexpensive and seaworthy.

I’ll have a look into Pandoras, though it’ll take a mighty effort to make me go for one over a Corribee.

I don’t know much about what makes a “nice” water, though I’ll most likely head towards Abersoch, Menai, Kriby and the likes if I also have a trailer. I’ve really not considered where I might leave a boat if I wasn’t trailing it though.

Can you suggest any good sites to start readong about Pandoras?

I’ve got a Pandora and wondered if Will had thought of one as ABERSOCH is probably closest nice water to Manchester and there are quite a few Pandoras there.

I hadn’t heard the bilge keel was stiffer before.
Until now it had been a tough choice between upwind ability with the need for legs to dry out, and shallower draft, easy drying but pointing a bit lower. Why can’t these things be easier?

The other thing is, if a bilge keeler, why not point a bit lower still, get a super-shallow draft, the easiest beaching in the world all strapped to a much faster boat and get a cat? (Price aside of course!)

Today WOULD be a good day to buy one and be done with it if I had the money (though if I had the money – I’d probably already have one!)… but I’ll have to hold off for a while yet. Soon though, soon.

I have yet to find a laptop adaptor to run my mac off 12v, but I’ll look into the PC laptop charger. That said, I have no 12v at the moment either, so it wouldn’t have helped last night.

All the best with your boat hunting. Today would be a good day to go buy one and be done with it

You say you are using a 230v to charge your laptop, obviously inverters are a great way to squander power, but inverting DC to AC only to run it through an adapter to get it BACK to DC is madness.
For not toooo much money you could get a laptop charger that runs right off your DC.

Have a search for a car charger for your model of laptop and you’ll have to sacrifice less of your power budget to run your laptop.

I’m currently saving up for my first boat, I’m not 100% sure yet, but there’s a fair chance I’ll be getting, yes you guessed it, a Corribee. The biggest uncertainty at the moment is the eternal bilge vs. fin thing – I just can’t make my mind up.

It’s a bit of a run from Manchester to the coast, but I’m sure I’ll manage.
Once I’m finally on the water I’ll be all over the place though, I’ll keep an eye out for Kudu.