Joe wrote:
Well said Doug, Except for that wise crack about center cockpits.


It may be that your boat is one of the exceptions... given what you've
said, and the look of it from pictures, I'd be inclined to think so.

However it's one of those design trade-offs... you could take any hull &
rig, and rebuild the deck to a center cockpit configuration, and thus
gain interior accomodation & privacy at the expense of sailing performance.

Please note that very very few racing boats have center cockpits... it
was tried on 12-Meters, for example... IIRC the only real winner of the
bunch was 'Flyer' a custom Swan ketch in the first Whitbread
'Round-The-World' race... it works on very big boats, such as Mari-Cha 4...

DSK