Making a Mac25 or a Venture 24-4 BIGGER

[SURV69]

Has anyone ever made thier boat "BIGGER"?

Either by adding a more permanent dog-house(replacing the pop-top), or making the cockpit more enclosed?

I'm getting the urge for more room and most definately "stand-up room".

I don't really want a bigger boat(cause of all the related bigger costs), but I'm looking for one and hoping that I can make my Venture 24-4 do the trick . . . somehow.

[Bob McLellan]

I saw one for sale on ebay once that the owner had built a bigger house, but when he got done, it was no more room than the canvas with the pop top up. I guess he lived on the boat. It sure made a nice boat ugly (IMHO). It will also render windage problems (similar to the X and M), but it worked. Killed his resale value - it went cheap

Also don't forget what all that extra weight up top might do to sailing. For all the work, I'd get an X - which is what I am going to do when I can.

[Bawgy]

There is a compac 23 on the NCSAIL>org site that the ownwer added a Pilot house to . Beautiful work. I think his name is Ray Henry and its the seaweed.

I cant find it but maybe it wasa kodiak pilot that he fixed up

PSS The owner is Bob Lamb and it is a compac . He added a pilot house and keeps it in Beaufort NC . I saw some pics on the cpyoa website

[Catigale]

The 2003 2004 is the ultimate for salon space imho...if I keep beating PaulS in the Edgartown races he will probably sell his cheap....

[Québec 1]

Get a
there is one for sale here... Only 60,000$

[Québec 1]

Woops !Make that 60,000$ here
http://www.voile.org/cgi-bin/classified ... rieval[url][/url]