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Catalina vs Hunter
No way man, you need a MacGregor 26. Now THOSE are some seaworthy craft.
Fwiw, I live about 10 miles from the Catalina factory, and I see a grip of OLD, beet up, hung down, abused not to nice, not well taken care of at all, had a few horible no good downright bad days, Catalina 27''s around, and you know what, they''re all still floating around, and the ones that havent completley blown out their sails still can move all right. And you can pick them up for a few thousand if you keep a vigilent eye out.
As a general rule with sail boats, I hesitate to make general rules. Most people make a reletivley sound hull, and from there on out, it''s up to how the owners took care of her, and what "upgrades" (Note the quotes) were applied over the life of the boat. People have gone around the world in Catalina 27''s, and there are Beneteau First Series (and Oysstars, and IP''s and Pacific Seacraft and ....) lying on the bottom. Look at the boats you find for sale. ask around about whats typicaly wrong with those boats, and check to see how thats doing in this instance. Then look for everything else.
-- James
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