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Default Canting Ballast, Twin Foil

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote:
As cheap and ugly as the Buccaneer was, it was easily ten

times more of
a sailboat than a MacGregor 26. It had a real keel and a

real mast. It
had more room inside and it had real bulkheads inside,

too.


The Buccaneer 18 was pretty cool boat, although it was originally a
Chrysler product. The bigger Buccaneers were pretty sad. Roomy yes....
real bulkheads (is that an issue for some people)... yes but I would
like to see the mathematical derivation of this 10x claim.

"Scotty" wrote:
it has no keel?


The emperor has no keel!

-signed- Injun Ear (formerly known as Eagle Eye)




 
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