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Thank you all for your answers up to now. We now decided to build a Belhaven.

I did edit this. I will start a new fred if needed for asking more about building my Belhaven. Regards, Gerrit

Hi I like that boat very much. Just thinking about taking her or the P22. For me I would not need the additional length of the P22, but I will not be far away from the security the P22 offers. Do you think it makes a (practical) huge difference in security between them? Maybe I easyly should build the Belhaven and add some ballast as shown sometimes....

Oh yes, I live in switzerland. But I come from the northsea coast in germany. The boat shall be used for daysailing here on the swiss lakes. We have the Lake Thun infront of the door and with the thermical conditions we get winds between 2 and around 5 Beaufort in summer. Sometimes storm can come quickly....There are some more lakes and the lake geneve is very near (100km away) and a very lovely place. I also want to go to the northsea coast with that boat for holidays. There are the "frisian islands" what is a wonderful place to sail with many islands like a pearl necklace near the coast. It ranges from the west of the netherlands with the island Texel and reaches up to nearly denmark with the island Sylt. It has shallow water, but the conditions are not easy. For big ships its known as one of the most dangerous waterways of the world. Maybe you know it as "german bight". Behind the islands there is a deep water way for the big ships going for example to Hamburg and Bremerhaven. The most german cars get shipped from there into the world too. The other place is the baltic sea. I would like to sail from the german coast near Kiel or Lübeck to the danish islands and in the flat waters from east germany to poland. The third place to go for me is the coast of the mediterran sea from france (Marseille) up to italy croatia and else. Yoe see that the boat will travel a lot. So trailering is a big point. The ways to germany, netherlands and croatia are up to 1000km oneway. Im not willing to have a trailerweight more than 1500kg. The trailer can be up to 300kg, so the complete boat, ready for holidays shouldnt be more than 1200kg. Of course we can store things in the car too....;-) I owned a 24ft plywood boat for many years. But she had a deep keel with draft from 1,60m. She stood 3,60m with the trailer and was going up to 2000kg trailerweight. That was to much for me and the boat was 40 years and needed a complete refit. So I sold her and now we are looking to build a new one...

Hi I live in switzerland and dont know one P22 here. And it is not possible for me to fly to america to look for a 22ft boat. Im in contact with Graham and Carla but just want to know what the owners from this boat think about her. Thats all......

Hi I know the specifies from the P22. What I ask for is what the builders and sailors did with this design, how they think about her and what changes they did, or maybe what changes they would do if they would build the boat again...

Hi there Im new to this forum. After looking many different desings Im very interisted to build a Princess Sharpie 22. I would like to know more about some points in this state now. First of all I would like to know what your boats weight is. It would be fine to see posts with your boatweight and what is included in this weight. Second I would like to see your different accomodation, or the variations of accomodation you did. It would be fine to see accomodation plans or real pics from your boat. At least I would like to know your thinkings about the sailperformance and seaworthyness of your boats. What is possible with this boat, what not? Regards from a new member from central europe...

Nice boat

Hi there Im new in this forum and I would like to know where the limits of this boat really are. Is she really good for coastal sailing even in rough conditions? How is she to build to get the most passive safety (selfrightening) ? Of course she is very roomy for her size and I like the rig too, but im not sure if she will be the boat for coastal trips even when its getting rough.....