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Originally Posted by camaraderie
Bottom line: Up to about 40 feet get a sloop unless you just want to be jaunty looking! 40-45'...your choice based on windward ability vs. handling tradeoffs...45'+...consider a ketch unless you have plenty of crew and like to go a couple of tenths of a knot faster to windward. |
Is a few tenths of a knot really the only difference? I was lead to understand that ketches were (generally) worse to windward than that, compared to sloops.