Thanks for nice post (and thanks to Wayne too)
Actually the light wind performance seems to bother people so I am
being very causcious here. But I have found some posts on sailnet.net
saying that it takes little practice to tack on WS32, but that it's
not really that slow... of course another post saying: most of the
westsail 32 cruisers told me that they have to motor most of the time :
(
As for ericson 39's ability to handle heavy weather, there are few
salty stories showing that it's actually rather good boat (and also
good for breeze), cf. http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexc...cson+knockdown,
Guy Stevens' post.
We still have a year or so before the actual purchase so we are still
quite open minded to anything. As for the use, I take back that
westsail 32 would be too small, I was too hasty to click. I don't find
the double-ended boats much appealing either, but I if I could get one
I wouldn't mind at all. Just cosmetics.
Thank
Petr