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This argument will run, and run.
I own a Union Polaris 36 ft cutter, and it weighs in at about 10 ton, with a modified full keel.
It has crossed the North Atlantic, including one gale when we had to stream a warp to slow the ship.
I was glad of every ounce of that 10 ton, and for the long keel.
By then, the faster deep fin boys probably would be about 300 miles in front of me, but I hope they didn't get caught in that gale.
To each their own.
It's long keel for me, with the weight, and the stability, and the keel cast into the glass fibre, and the lack of keel bolts, and the keel-hung rudder.
In the lighter airs, I have no hope of catching the lighter ships, but you wait for the big seas, it's tends to be different then.
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