Twenty Affordable Sailboats To Take You Anywhere Paperback – November 15, 2006

Trying to figure out what kind of boat you need for blue water cruising and how much that boat might cost? John Vigor's "Twenty Affordable Boats" is the place to start. Our copy has been referenced many times as part of our long-range plan to get out there and see the world. It's a great volume to have at hand when you're perusing yachtworld or other websites featuring boats for sail.The only caveat here is that, of course, this book is not comprehensive. Vigor could have included another 20 boats and perhaps another 20 after that. If you already have a good idea of what those boats are, your level of expertise may be beyond Vigor's target audience.But for those of us in the "trying to figure all this out" stage of planning our sailing adventures, this book is absolutely top-notch. A must.

While I enjoyed the book some of the numbers calculated for each boat are off. I noticed the motion comfort ratio for the Baba 30 was very different than the other boats so I did some digging. The numbers for the other boats are better but don't exactly match what you get using the formulas in the back. So I found the formulas that were actually used and ended up making a spreadsheet to recalculate everything. I also added the boats from John Vigor's book "Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere". Can't provide a link here but if you Google search the terms 'the things I do hcbonner' then you can find the spreadsheet in my "...messing about in boats" blog post.

Nestor's book is a great starting point for anyone considering purchase. It is a good supplement to Vigor's book. I prefer Vigor's book because he provides more detail on known weaknesses. Both books are essential to people new to sailing as well as more experienced sailors when buying an older boat. Also, read the reviews in "Good Old Boat" magazine.

I dream of sailing in retirement. While it probably won't happen on a full-time basis like I'd like I can see myself living on the coast and having a boat for weekend trips someday. This is a great book with excellent reviews of small affordable sailboats. Well worth the money I spent on it.

Well organized and intentioned book. Slightly better thought out than your average youtuber. It's on the verge of obsolescence and I don't think the author spent much time on most of these boats.

I've read "Twenty Affordable Sailboats to Take You Anywhere" by Greg Nestor at least a dozen times. Does that make me a dreamer? Well, I read the book "Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere" by John Vigor about fifty times. If someone wrote a book named, "Twenty Medium-sized Sailboats to Take You Anywhere" I'd buy that sucker.

This book picks up where "Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere" (by John Vigor) left off. Vigor writes the extraordinarily humorous preface, which is actually one of the best parts of the book (laughed out loud). Vigor writes with greater humor than Nestor (no insult, as this is Vigor's special gift), but both are extremely informative, and both books are well worth reading. Because of the "take you anywhere" escapist allure and the books' propensity to stir your imagination and conjure fantasies that provoke the reasonable man to contemplate unreasonable acts, my brother-in-law aptly calls the books "sailboat porn."

Practical, useful, and well written. My copy was published around 2006. Most of the boats featured in the book are now getting very long in the tooth and it would be useful to get an updated edition. Gregg Nestor's advice is timeless but the boats are not.