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This weekend we will be going down to sign up to be port/starboard side 'ballast' at the local club for anyone needing crew for weekend races. I figure we can learn a lot from that. But no Cats around here so much.
Part of reason I am thinking on the boat and its 'issues' is just that safety is top of the list for the SO. Thats why I liked finding those wireless MOB things; something to point out safety features to the SO will help put her mind at ease. Likewise on the boat front, I figure more opinion here can't hurt. I was just suprised to see a builder think 48 was his version of a minimum for cruising safely - plenty have sailed around in much smaller.
I do think bigger is safer just intuitively of course, but just don't like the incremental huge steps in cost that entails. At the moment, I would think 40 is an ideal minimum while 48 would be a best case but expensive maximum. Larger than that I think just gets ridiculous, especially for a couple.
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