Sorry I'll miss you at Easter. I've sailed Nigel Pitt's Spring Fever Regatta for the last 5 years at Easter. As a matter of fact, When I took my new job in management 3 years ago, I made it a condition of taking the position that they'd never see me at Easter just so I could sail that event. See ya at the Tommy Whiteside. Love to sail your Taipan F-16, I have to test drive one before I make a wrong Call again. Every time I get Catless, I go into some kind of panic mode. Fortunatly right now we have more boats than room, so I won't have to go there again soon. On the other hand, I can crew on an F-18 most anytime without having to make a payment, Might be more fun for me to buy a different boat just for me this time. I sail all year long, and I really worry about winter sailing and freezing to death on a capsized boat that I can't right by myself, drysuit or no drysuit, I don't want that to be me. So When the water gets cool I depower everything for the winter, don't take any risks I can't recover from, and avoid some great wind days that I am cautious about risking my hide in. (Generaly I take the H-14 out then, but at my #170, it's not even fast when the wind is blowing. I just bury the leeward hull farther and farther. OK if you like sailing submarines.
Bottom line, there's no right answer here for me yet. All that will work out after I sell the I-20, and am forced to make a choice. Guess there's always my Sunfish, or my JetBoat or my Slowtoy, the Hobie14.(Yeech). At least I won't be a landlubber while I'm making up my mind.
I need to try out a F-16 and see.
CARY