[Jeff_H]

I am saying that here in Annapolis a few years back a 4100 lb Laser 28 and an Alberg 30 bounced off each other (topsides to topsides) in a thunderstorm and it was the Alberg that suffered the stress cracks and damaged hull/deck joint. Of course that is a too small a sampling for a fair example.

But if you consider your Hunter example, there is nothing especially thin about a Hunter as compared to a Alberg of equal length. If you compare an Alberg 35 at 12500 lbs to a Hunter 35.5 at 13,000 lbs of which the Alberg also has 500 lbs more ballast and a heavier rig, that suggests that the Hunter''s hull is actually heavier. And if you consider the Hunter''s framing system and higher density laminates, what ever else you can say about Hunters, I would suspect that the Hunter would do quite well relative to the Alberg in a similar impact.

Jeff