You work hard all of your life....you take care of the family, spending
long hours behind the wheel, in the factory, maintaining the home and
wondering why others get so much for doing so little. Still, you know
how the Tortoise won the race, so you labor on....and finally...at long
last and with great relief you get your reward.......

And it's a Seidelmann, among the cheapest low end boats ever. Or it's a
Express 30...perhaps even more of a dinosaur with it's horrible lines,
all hard angles and a head that is part of the forward sleeping area.
Good grief. Even Steve was driven to sell his before it needed yet
another set of glue-on ports!
Perhaps even worse, you find yourself demoted, gunkholed aboard a tired
steel monstrous motorsailor that rarely, if ever, sails at all. Then
again, what possible fun could it be to handle such an ill mannered
bulbous barge? Then there are the sort who are forever claiming they're
looking for a modern nice boat, but can't afford it and call their
tired worn tubs "classics." Enter Sea Sprites and Nordica
designs....lord help us. I suppose that any full keep boat that can't
sail upwind is a classic these days. It's the great backward indeed for
these poor sailors.

Then there are some of us who strive for better things....better
living, better sex, better art and of course....better boats.

Ladies and gentleman, the Beneteau First 35s5. She's one of the fastest
shoal draft cruisers around and she has an aft cabin and head suitable
for those over 6 feet tall. She's fast, fun and well built. 16 years
old and she's held up better than the Island Packets, C&Cs and
Ericson's in my yard of the same vintage.

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RB
35s5
NY