"Craig Bryant" wrote in message
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You should consider your planned use of the boat. I have a Potter 19,
and find that the rigging time involved (30-40min X 2) means that I
dont really consider taking it out for much less than a full day. If I
have just a few hours to go sailing, I didn't go. So, I got a smaller
boat (14') that rigs in about 5 minutes.

On the totem pole of experts, I'm the guy at the bottom, so my
opinion isn't worth much, but I think Craig has the right idea.

Since you (Mo) have no experience sailing, you don't really know
for sure that you'll like it. So it could be a good idea to get
something very easy to use, and very low cost, just to find
out if you'll like it.

Also, since you plan to sail on a Lake 15 miles from home, you'll
probably be doing little or no overnight cruising. Therefore a cabin
may be totally unnecessary. A daysailer may be smaller, lighter,
cheaper, easier to rig, easier to de-rig, easier to launch, and take
less room in your garage. If it's small and light enough, you might
even be able to store it on its side, or hoist it to the ceiling, or
hoist it against the wall (which I do with my 2 person kayak),
leaving space for your car as well.

Alan