[quote=cloudchsr]Ah, nice responses all, thank you!
So as for weight, I'm about 170, crew would be lighter, but I'm not authorized to disclose numbers. Occasionally I'll be going solo, so the smaller boats should be adequate weightwise. For winds, Maine summer winds generally are light, 10-ish knots or less. I've heard the 5.0 is undercanvassed also. I'll be keeping the boat on a beach, but the tides here are big, so lighter is preferred. No matter what it is, a winch will be involved, but still, lighter is better.
New in the mix, someone has a Supercat for sale locally, also older (1982), no board or boom, and some great engineering. Asking price is $3,500 for that, seems good structurally, but not very pretty cosmetically. When I add up new sails, either my time or someone else's for detailing, odds and ends, very soon it's a $6k boat or more and there are some very nice boats in that price range, newer but not boardless. Big thing about the boards is there are shoals here which I'd either have to learn where they all are or use my phone for a plotter or risk a big whack if I hit one.
Quite the dilemma....[/quote]
