Brien Alkire wrote:

My wife and I like to sail Vanguard V-15's in Santa Monica Bay. We rent
them and try to go out once every week or two. It's a great feeling to be
so close and connected with the sea and wind, I just don't get that same
feeling on a keel boat.

Agreed. Even the high performance keel boats cannot possibly duplicate
the responsiveness of small fast racing dinghy. That's probably why all
the world's best racing skippers earned their stripes in one or another
of the fast centerboard classes before moving into the high-dollar
sailing world.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King