katysails wrote:
Ya know, comparing fin keel boats to crab crushers is really just an
exercise in futility...they are made for different kinds of sailing under
different conditions

But they most often have to sail the same waters & the same
conditions... hard as as it is for the Crab Crusher Mafia to swallow,
fin keel boats have sailed round Cape Horn... in fact I bet by now that
more fin keelers have...

... and for different temperaments...

Yes indeed, there's the real point.


It's sort of like Joe's specious arguments about steel boats. Not everyone
who sails wants to be tied to invest in Brillo for the rest of their
lives...so why can't we all just be glad for the boats we have and agree
that the only boats not worth having are Mac 26X's and M's and Coronado
27's?


Even the Mac26X and the Coronado 27 have some redeeming features. The
Mac26X is the best floatable camping trailer ever built; the Coronado 27
is cheap & roomy and serves as a reminder of the cultural emptiness of
it's era. Every time I see one, I think of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....

DSK