"Jim Cate" wrote in message
...
The truth is that I had actually hoped to get some substantive
information from contributors on this ng who had sailed the 26M or
spoken to otherw who had. I finally gave up on this one, and placed my
order for the 26M last week.

Jim

You got the next best thing, good advice, including taking one for a test
sail, which you pointedly ignored. Based on the content of your posts one
could only reasonably conclude that they were either a troll or spam. The
only other conclusions one could come to would be that you are an extremely
inexperienced sailor, an extremely gullible individual, or both.
Good luck, you'll need it.
John Cairns