Toews ‘r Us
a family sailing adventure

Charkayan is a 42 foot privilege.  I believe these are British made.  I’ve heard it said that you either love them or hate them.  But I just don’t feel that way.

This is a nice boat, but there are some things that I just don’t like about her.  She’s very dark inside, and the head liners just seem cheap.  She looks solidly built, but just not what we’re looking for.  Debi really likes it bright and airy inside and she just isn’t it.

Although this did have a huge amount of storage.

At the same time we also saw Meander, a Prout 39.  This I believe is also of Britsh decent, also a dark boat inside.  She has only two cabins - there are models with three, but I just don’t like the layout.

Both of these boats strike me as being strong as oxen, but just not designed for our family or lifestyle.

We saw these at The Catamaran Group’s service location.  It’s a little place under a bridge on a river, but functional.  Michael, the broker that I’ve been working with, also showed us some Lagoons while we were there.  The Lagoon 410.  They are a very nice boat, but unfortunately out of our price range.  He also showed us the new Lagoon 440: it has a fly bridge and all - very nice!  I didn’t go on her because it would be hard to go back to what I need to look at.

So Far this has been a productive trip.  Now we’re heading over to Naples to spend the night.  It should be fun - down Alligator Alley…