I believe that was Taylor Reis's Parrent's boat, and yeah, that would be a great "Family Boat"!!

Jay, take the family out on a Corsair next time, there's no bobing back and forth and getting sea sick on one of those.

When my twins were about 3, and Tom was about 8mo. we went out on a Corsair F24 with Bob Gleason and his two young boys, about 2+4yrs. old I think.

So there were three adults (Bob, my wife, me) and 5 kids, (one was a baby) and had a great day out on Buzzard's Bay. Even though it was only 24', there was plenty of room with the two tramps outside the ****. My wife stayed in the ****, while my twins went to lay on the low side tramp and watch the waves roll under, while Bob and I sailed from the high side ama.

When we first got on the boat, my wife's one 'rule' was, "NO SPINNAKERS! Things always go wrong when you put up that Spinnaker!" (from one bad broach on my J24).

So...well...you know we HAD to put it up!

As soon as she went down below to breast feed, Bob very quietly snuck it up through the bow hatch, and we put it up without a word spoken, just pointing and nodding, and we were going off on a good reach when she came back topside. She looks up and says, "HEY! WHAT's THAT??!!" pointing up at the chute.

Bob without missing a beat says, "That? Oh, that's just a big jib..."

Well since it was bright red, and all the other sails were white, she didn't buy it, but she didn't complain either, as we were toodling along about 10 knots, flat and smooth, with all the kids on the high side now, loving it.

On the drive home she said, "Well, that didn't tip nearly as much as the J24, I guess you can get one of those."

Bob suggested I get a beach cat to learn more about multihull sailing while waiting to scrape up the dough for a Corsair. This was June of 1996.

About a month later Delta closed the Boston crew base and displaced me to ATL, and we finally decided to move to FL a year later. My Corsair savings went to buy the house down here. At least I can go out on the dock, lie down on my back, listen to the wind and waves and pretend I'm sailing across the ocean on a real boat!

I did get a beach cat once we got down here, but I'm still waiting for those twins (and 6 horses) to get off my payroll so I can get a Corsair!