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Posted on June 9, 2009 at 10:46am 7 Comments 0 Likes
I have about 3 years experience from my local yachclub as a crew on other peoples boat. I am looking to buy my first boat for the Great Lakes and have narrowed it down to a Cape Dory 25D and the Pacific Seacraft Flicka. I have looked at everything from Bristol 24, to a Bristol 29.9 to a Hunters, Freedoms, C & C's , O'Day's Catalina's on and On and ON.
I am going to mostly day-sail with an occasional overnight and/or weekend trip. Which is the better boat, I can't decide!!!
I am going to mostly day-sail with an occasional overnight and/or weekend trip. Which is the better boat, I can't decide!!!
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How exciting :)
Erika
This site is good to compare boat statistics like motion comfort and capsize ratio
http://www.image-ination.com/sailcalc.html
here is a great website about Cape dory
http://www.capedory.org/
here is a site about PS flikas
http://www.flicka20.com/
here is another great forum
http://www.cruisersforum.com/
Hope this helps, you have great taste in boats,
welcome to the forum
Erika