Six years ago today you were delivered to us in Tacoma, Washington. Time flies when you’re having fun. m
"Somebody should stop me……" Its been a bit of time since my last post. This follows the two other posts about outfitting and choosing a boat, and tries to summarize some of the things we have done. Much more information about all of this crap is on other parts of the site. Beware – this…
When buying a boat, the numbers really do tell the story. Here are the optimum numbers, courtesy of Nigel Calder, and the numbers of the Malo 39: Ballast Ratio greater than 33% – Malo 39 – 32.2% Displacement length ratio around 200-250, maximum 300 – Malo 296 Sail area-displacement ratio 15 to 18 – Malo…
This is the story about how we bought our boat. We came upon the Malo 39 http://www.maloyachts.com sailboat purely by chance. Our sailing career up to that point had been on a Hunter 34 – the 1984 Cherubi version. This was one of Hunter’s better crafts from the 1980’s. She was fast, easy to sail,…