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Old 03-05-2008
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With $30k, you'd be better off shopping for a monohull. You can get a lot of monohull for $30k, or rather a very nice monohull.

In my shopping experience, the only cats you'll find for up to $30k will be in horrible condition or custom/homemade varieties of questionable build-quality. I'd say $75k might be a better minimum for finding a sail-away condition cat. I think Iroquois go in the $60k-$80k range while Gemini's start around $70k and go up quickly from there.
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