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Originally Posted by TrueBlue
I clocked 6.8 kts today in 18 kts true wind (mizzen, main & 150 Genoa) . . . a slug by your standards SD - not going to debate that. Giu would also have a laugh over that claim - with his 44 reaching 12.5 kts.
We're not comparing apples to apples.
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Giulietta's a 40 footer...12 metres on the nose. About 12 metres on the waterline, too! It's a fast boat, and it can do 10 knots in about 14 knots apparent, which is the highest wind speed I saw in Portugal (except for the high teens...briefly...going around the corner). As I have a 10 metre racer-cruiser ancestral to it, plus the equivalent of a 40-foot Nauticat as a cruiser, it presented a real study in contrasts.
It's a racer with cruising elements to it, rather than a really fast cruising racer. Open an access
hatch and the plastic fitting and translucent hull underline that fairly strongly...it's a pretty light boat. Think of a J-Boat crossed with a Mumm 30, with a nice inheritance from Grandfather Open 60 and a Laser 28 as a kid brother. I have to say that while I didn't get the opportunity to see it pushed around in any sense, I did have the opportunity to play with it alone in light air and moderate, 3 metre swells, and it's a pretty well-behaved boat, quite easy to sail and trim. That's in part to a very cleanly organized set of control
lines, the names of which I couldn't master in Portuguese.
Just don't add four free feet to Alex's already high opinion about her!