On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:28:23 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


In August of 1972 my wife and I chartered a Bristol 25 for two weeks.

It was our first cruising experience on Long Island Sound and Block

Island. It was a pretty small boat and didn't sail very well but we

had a great time. A year or two later we bought a Westerly 28 which

was another small boat but it was like the Queen Mary compared to the

Bristol. We did a lot of sailing on the Westerly and once got as far

as eastern Maine with it - big adventure for us at the time. We

actually did sell that boat for more than we paid, considerably more,

but that was a time of very high inflation and we had repowered it

with a new Volvo diesel.

From a 25 to a 28'

What made the big difference in their performance, Wayne?

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Taller mast, bigger and better sails, more efficient keel with less
wetted surface (lower drag, greater lift), longer water line length.

It also had a much bigger main cabin.

When our kids got to be 5 or 6 we decided it was time for another
bigger boat and we got the Cal-34 that we had for many years. That
was another huge jump in relative size and performance, still small by
the standards of many, but it served us well for a long time.