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Originally Posted by dquack
Sounds like you have a cool boat. I'm not sure that the typical boat made today is actually better than the ones made many years ago. In fact I think the older designs have a lot of good features that have been lost in the name of weight savings and speed.
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I like the boat and it has some decent features for a small trailer sailor, but mostly the point I was trying to make was that with the smaller low displacement boats like this, one of the scenarios for disaster planning is for the boat to get rolled and remain inverted for some period of time. I would like to think it will never happen (no reports I can find for an N17 turtling or even going all the way over for that matter) but there are other more popular boats that are similar that it has happened to. So I try not to be too smug about it as there are probably just so few N17s that reports of any kind are pretty rare. Anyway, if that were to happen (turtling), I would like to be able to surface without detaching the tether first.
