On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:45:17 -0400, rhys wrote:

Well, that's why I said "for my type of sailing", which is blasting in
and out of the yacht club basin and the shipping channel under power,
then not much motoring other than that. That's why it's a "sailboat",
or at least that's why I justify to myself the purchase of an
asymmetrical spinnaker that cost twice as a rebuilt Atomic 4 G

Wouldn't the right comparison to a rebuilt A4 be a re-cut genoa in
Egyptian cotton? ;-)

My favourite spinnaker cost me CDN$800 used and I don't think I could
drop a rebuilt A4 into the boat for twice that. Still, I don't think I
could really justify repowering with a diesel unless the A4 threw a
rod through the block or something like that.

Ryk