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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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For he basics? Get a dinghy in the 15-16' Range...O'Day day sailor, something like that....a centerboard dinghy for easy launching. These are the best craft for really learning to sail. Move up to a ballasted keelboat after you've mastered the centerboard.
Multi hulls are indeed a different animal...tons of fun, but different.
People who begin with a ballasted boat don't undersatnd the basics of sail trip as well as those who began on a centerboard dinghy, and sometimes end up in trouble because of the ballasted boat forgiveness of error.
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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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