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Originally Posted by Stryker72
What would be a good boat for the Great Lakes?
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You're going to have to provide more parameters than that, but in the broadest possible terms, something reasonably stiff but light enough to handle the prevailing light westerlies. Yesterday, we had a long fetch easterly at 20-25 knots, and a few Hunters and Catalinas were getting plastered in the six foot square waves. The C&Cs and the J-Boats just cut through it with single reefs in the main and 25 degrees of heel. My own boat, a steel cutter, was making six knots under staysail alone and probably pitched more up and down than heeled to either side (about 15 degrees).
But that isn't typical unless you use the whole season (late April to late October). Most of the time it's 10 knots or less.