Daveylocker

Hey!

hehe, thanks!
Time flies. 10 years ago we had that boat.
It's a really roomy and nice boat. Very good downwind, but not the one I prefer if going upwind a lot. We had the boat running upwind at two times. One in Panama, from Taboga to Panama City, about 10 miles. The other one about 100 miles in Tonga. So, if you can, try stay away from head winds above 10-12 kts where there is no build up sea.
Our boat had aluminum water tanks. Not so good. A lot of aluminum oxide.
Downwind 90-180 degree she performed good. Often sailed around 5-6 kts. I think our best 24h was around 150 miles. Took us 27 days to get the 3300 miles from Galapagos to Fatu Hiva. If in very big rough see coming into your beam, the boat can rock rapidly/fast which feels a little bit scary

It was me and Karin (my gf).

Right now in Mexico refitting our 44ft trimaran check us out at "sailing less plastic" on youtube.