How difficult it is, choosing a ideal cruising yacht to do a circumnavigation, a blue water cruising yacht. There are an almost impossible number of yacht types for sale and everyone has an opinion about hull material, length and make. You google until crazy, find hundreds of sites and the confusion is increasing.

Still you can categorize. How long do you leave, how long are you off shore, shallow versus deep water, easy saling or almost single handed, how cold or warm are your destinations? And budget and financing actually determine everything.

It’s nice that we are in a technology shift again. I will mention two but there may be many more. I see an integration of PC based solutions, navigation and communications. The coverage and price of CPN map material is excellent compared to map material for fixed plotter systems. In order to prevent errors in maps in sparsely populated and rarely visited areas, more and more conversion of satellite images to maps is another such development.

A second transformation is from diesel and gas to electric or hybrid. Still special but what will that be like in 2023? With current solar and battery technology like LiFePo4, we are getting there. And the hybrid solution, a 5 KW diesel generator, easily drives electric propulsion. We will see. Electric cooking and then no more gas?

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