[drmattito]

I want to thank everybody for giving me some advice. I just came upon this message board a couple of weeks ago after my father and I made the decision to get back into sailing.

While I do have many years of sailing experience, the vast majority of those years took place when I was a child and a teenager, sailing on Galveston Bay almost every weekend on a 36'' Heritage West Indies.

While I have done a few weeks of heavy blue water sailing on a 50'' sloop in the leewards, I simply dont know enough about all the boats out there just yet. I do know that my favorite sailing is in fact bluewater long distance, and that is one of the main reasons for for my initial question.

I''m glad that I found this online community. You will probably see many more questions from me in the future.

Not trying to end the discussion of the solo across the Atlantic post however, any more info would be great.