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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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One GREAT day in my life? Taking on a 20' cat in my 15' Chrysler's "Mutineer" monohull... in a high mountain lake. I tacked the SOB to death upwind...reading catspaws well, I whupped his ass..he dumped, didn't see the shift coming...Equal skipper skills? Mono vs. Cat? Cat wins, speed wise, every time...Cats don't point well, but omygod do they have speed! If crossing oceans were my goal? Monohull!
Iedit) Jeremy? Isn't it some kind of rush when you begin to plane in a monohull??? I never did trapeze...was too old when I started sailing to pull that off. Lack of upper body strength at age 50 plus..
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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