+1 - great boat. Pick up the cheap end-pole snuffer from someone who's gone to a mid-pole and you'll increase the fun factor. I personally would probably suggest to most new cat sailors they wait a while to add a spinnaker... they require a good amount of hardware (that can add clutter) and a good amount of handling skills and in my opinion are counter intuitive ... i would tell most people to MASTER the skills of cat sailing before you add a spin... If you learned right out of the gate to fly a kite it would NOT be counter intuitive,because it's all you'd know. Makes more sense to me, but I have a tendency to jump in to sports with intermediate or advanced gear.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
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