Ryan, if you really want to improve your skills, you should buy one of the locally popular boats racing. Ohio is dominated by the Mystere 4.3 and the Nacra F17. Michigan is dominated by the F17 with some F18's and a growing A cat group. There are good to near perfect used examples of all of them available without the headache of importing or the penalty for the weak US dollar. This advice may look biased especially with my signiture below, but you can check it against race attendance for OCRA or CRAM.