"Ed Gordon" wrote in message
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I like to look at it this way. Macs are for the more intelligent and
careful sailors. Heavy keel boats perform poorer but are harder to
capsize so you can get drunk and sloppy and get away with it more often.
A Mac is like riding a thorobred. Hang on and enjoy the greater speed
and versatility but don't get complacent.


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Cheerio,
Ed Gordon
http://www.freewebs.com/egordon873/index.htm

With the ballast tanks full, it's a displacement hull limited in its
hullspeed just like any "heavy keel boat." It's also under-rigged compared
to those heavier deep keel displacement boats, and can't carry much in the
way of light air sails.