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On Tue, 04 May 2004 16:55:06 GMT, (Norm) wrote:

Yesterday I was looking at a 36' Cape Dory on Yachtworld, but the
thing has a PHRF of 180. The Passport has a PHRF of 140 and most
people said that it was a slug. Now I'm confused.

You have to decide what a "slug" is for your purposes. To me, both of
those would qualify, but I doubtless sacrifice something that you want
to avoid slughood.

Both of those are very heavy. The Cape Dory has a short waterline.

A sailboat is inevitably full of compromises. Some of them can be
mitigated with lots of money, but you still run up against the laws of
physics. In the 40-foot range, $100,000 does not qualify as lots of
money for the purpose of bypassing physics.

HTH

Rodney Myrvaagnes Opinionated old geezer

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