On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:20:11 -0600, Paul Cassel
wrote:

However, a water capacity of
50 gallons is thin for moving 'beyond'. I may be wrong here, but I think
if you loaded this boat up with what most folks take to hit the south
pacific, it'd sail terribly.

Those are good points. Another thing to consider is that virtually
all racing boats are designed to sail with a lot of crew weight on the
rail (movable ballast). Without that extra stability, most if not all
will have trouble carrying full sail in any kind of breeze, and will
lack power going to windward.