A what boat query

Originally posted by iGRF So, imagine you've had enough of it all and want to bugger off, maybe single handed, and you have a sub £40 grand budget, with the idea of maybe a bit of stooging around the med, then perhaps the Arc and winter in the Caribbean, what would you go for...

Of that £40k, a lot will be eaten up in costs in the Med.
It is generally  an expensive game.

Tends to be the old-fashioned boats that do well in rough seas - strongly built, long keels, overhangs - everything I'm asuming you would hate in a yacht?

http://www.co32.org/

Plenty of Contessa 32's have been globe trotting.

They say you need a foot for every year old you are...

There a thousands of answers to that question but here are a few:

Hanse 292, 300 or 301.

All based on the Aphrodite hull shape which goes very well. £34000 would pic up a nice example.

Small and simple enough to sail singlehanded but will sleep 6.

Could also look at Halmatic 30, Moody 31, Albin Ballad, GK29

definitely your best bet