Wendy,

Let me put in a plug for a boat that a fit person can handle single handed.

I have a B-40 Custom Yawl, and she is quite comfortable for one to sail, if
the wind is over 15 kts just unroll some genoa and use the mizzen. There are
newer boats but few that I would want to bet my life on, or have to tend
sails in a squall. Modern boats are more weatherly and have taller rigs as
well. You pays your money and takes your choice.
--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652