[PUP] Selen or Kadey Krogen?

[John Marshall]

A cockpit on a boat with a wet exhaust is uninhabitable underway,  
IMHO. I find inhaling diesel fumes contributes to sea sickness.

However, with a dry stack, cockpits are great places to get a breath  
of fresh air when underway, although there is little sense in making  
them too big. You aren't going to have a dinner party out there while  
underway.

Once we're at the dock or at anchor, the covered flybridge is where we  
socialize when the weather is good. Its airy, its big, its up high and  
has a great view and cool breezes. Or we set up a table and chairs on  
the boat deck.

Bottom line, the cockpit is the least used area of our boat. It's just  
my personal preference, but I'd always keep the cockpit small and use  
that space for the salon.

John Marshall
Pacific Northwest


On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Anthony Thorne wrote:

> You are looking at two very different types of cruising, tropical  
> and north
> of 30. 2 very different boat configurations. Cockpits are not really  
> that
> useable, at sea they are cold and stinky, in port that are suntraps.  
> If I
> was going to sea like that I would opt Nordhavn or Kady K but both  
> with
> active stabilizers.
>
> Best of Luck
>
> Carmen
> La Paz Mexico
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Barbara Wilkinson  
> <xbrit at charter.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> We are trying to decide between a Kadey Krogen 42 Widebody (later  
>> model) or
>> a Selene 47 2000 model.  Our planned 5-7 year cruise would be from  
>> Alaska,
>> down the West Coast & Mexico, through the Panama Canal into the  
>> Carib, a
>> side trip to Guatemala, up to Florida and then probably at least  
>> half of
>> the
>> Loop.  From there we'd like to go to Holland and take the route to  
>> the
>> Black
>> Sea, Aegean & Med.  (Atlantic crossing probably by Tanker delivery!).
>>
>>
>>
>> We are concentrating on long range blue-water pilothouse/trawlers  
>> with low
>> bridge clearances.  The Nordhavns seems to have high stacks and  
>> almost no
>> cockpit.  Although they are awesome boats, they don't seem to be  
>> compatible
>> with our need to live mostly on the decks!  Is the Kadey Krogen  
>> hull design
>> really superior?  Is the hull of the Selene 47 sufficient for the  
>> waters we
>> plan on cruising?  We love both boats and can see why owners fall  
>> in love
>> with both of them!
>>
>>
>>
>> Would anyone like to join a discussion on this?  Our last boat was  
>> a Marine
>> Trader, but this time we're serious!
>>
>>
>>
>> Barb & Don
>>
>> Reno, Nevada.
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