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I never said it was ugly. In fact, I think it has nice lines.

It's a Bill Luders design, from the hand of the man who designed winning
America's Cup racers in the mid-20th Century. His designs were all
rule-beaters, and this boat is no exception. Your contention that it's a
slug is dead wrong, and shows your complete lack of experience and knowledge
regarding sailing vessels. You depend upon numbers, ratings, and emperical
findings, which are meaningless in the real world. If you knew anything
about boats, you'd discover that boats seldom perform to their numbers,
except in very specific conditions, generally flat water, winds of 8-10kts.
and such. For example, a friend's Westsail 32 is almost untouchable in
winds over 20kts. He walks away from Catalina 42s and 387s which can't
carry enough sail in those conditions to maintain any decent turn of speed.
He sailed alongside a Chicago-Mac racer of roughly 40', with lots of
railmeat to hold her upright, for nearly 10 miles in 30kts. You wouldn't
have left your slip in such conditions. No doubt you believe the Westsail
32 to be a slug.

I just said it was a slug, which it is. The C&C is not a "lovely little
lake
boat", it's a fast, light, coastal cruiser. That's what I use it for, and
it
excels. MixUp's Sea Slug 34 may be suitable for slow, log passages, but he
doesn't ever do that. He's a near-shore coastal LAKE sailor, who makes
sure he
is at a dock when the sun sets. His boat is not suited for what he does
with it.
Its also slow as molasses.

In 5 kts. it sails at roughly 3kts. (GPS). In 10kts. it sails at 5.5kts.
That's slow as molasses? At 20kts. with a single reef taken it sails beyond
hull speed, generally in the range of 7.5 with bursts to 8 in gusts. That's
slow? It does 3-4' closely-spaced chop with ease, while boats such as yours
pound their occupants and make them seasick. It's anything but "slow as
molasses. I'd love the opportunity to show you just how "slow" it is in a
boat vs. boat comparison. No doubt you'd do what we see quite often from
boats that can't believe a boat with a 24' waterline is beating their boat:
a tack or gybe to sail the other direction and end their humiliation.

I'm not at all envious of a Sea slug 34. Maxprop never crosses oceans, so
it's
"possible" advantages are never utilized.

While strong enough by any standard, the Sea Sprites aren't ocean boats. C.
E. Ryder, the builder, never claimed they were. He built a line of boats
for that purpose: the Southern Cross series. The Sea Sprites are all
CCA-type sleek yachts with damn fine looks, excellent sailing manners,
comfortable accommodations for the crew, and not by any means slow. They
aren't crab crushers, rather a different genera of boat entirely. But I
wouldn't expect you to know that. For that matter I wouldn't expect you to
know much at all, as you've so willingly demonstrated with your insipid
posts.

Rather than continue to appear ignorant, consider reading Ferenc Mate's
chapter on the Sea Sprite 34 (he calls it a Luders 34) in his book, Best
Boats. It's one of his favorites, and he makes a rather strong statement
that the boat is not slow. Offhand I don't recall seeing your boat in that
book. . . .

Max