What part of the country are you in?


Seattle.

Oone of the boats you will want to consider is the MacGregor. See the guys at
Bluewater Yachts on the 2100 block of Westlake. It's a small, family run
operation and you will never meet nicer people.

Serious sailors sort of pooh-pooh this boat,
but there are hundreds of them out there and the actual owners seem to like
them a lot. For just knock-around sailing and NW island hopping, they are
probably fine.