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Originally Posted by sailingdog
The boat was designed as a keel/centerboarder for a reason. The reason was to accommodate a shoal draft while still allowing decent upwind performance. Removing the use of the centerboard makes it a lousy upwind performer... and that can be trouble if you're in a lee shore situation. Also, maintenance on a centerboard isn't all that much. I'd be curious to know how the centerboard trunk was sealed up and why.
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I tend to agree with you on this point, sailingdog. I personally would not purchase a centerboard boat that had the board sealed up. I've heard of it working all right on some boats, and I sailed a Pearson 36 once that had the board sealed up and we still did pretty well to windward. I'm guessing the O'Day could really use that board though.