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Originally Posted by Jeff_H View Post
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The odd part of this, is that for the past few years Farr's office seems to have focused on leading edge designs and does not seem to have done many performance cruising designs in the size range we are discussing. Of course, Farrs office has done some nice racer cruisers in this size such as the Farr 395, Beneteau First 36.7, 40.7 and 44.7 but build quality are not as robust as some of the other boats that mentioned. I have not seen one but the Farr designed Fingulf 43 looks like it will be a very nice performance cruiser.
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There's a simple answer to that question. There is no money in it.

A less simple answer could be that there's no challenge either. Over here, the focus has been, and still is, to be the one who designed the first over the line in the Sydney-Hobart - now, that's challenging!

Or perhaps he thinks there's too many others designing performance cruisers? or maybe the constraints are too much trouble?? Perhaps you could ask him ... expert to expert!

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I need to run, more later,
Jeff
We look forward to it.

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Last edited by Hartley18; 05-13-2008 at 11:58 PM.
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