Hi:



You might buy or not buy this boat depending on what your purpose is. If you want to race one design, you will be throwing your money away. To be successful you will need a Marstrom Tcat. the boat may be fine for daysailing, although I'm not familiar with any boat that was built in Texas in the late 80s. Perhaps the boat was built in the late 80s, but the owner lived in Texas? Any Tcat is 10 feet wide, which is too wide to trailer flat. If you wish to trailer the boat a lot, you will be assembling and disassembling platforms a lot, unless you buy a tilt trailer. On the other hand, Tcats have a great feel to them. Properly set up, they have a very light and responsive helm and change direction extremely quickly. They're also blindingly fast, particularly when the breeze is on.



I may be able to help you figure out what the boat is and whether or not it's the right boat for you. Prolly best if you phone me rather than wear your fingers to the bone emailing lots.



Call me at 240 876 9510 mobile, 301 208 0828 home, 301 975 2626 work. I live on the east coast of the US. I have been sailing and racing Tcats since '87.



-Greg Scace

USA815