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I owned and sailed a 105m on Puget Sound for a number of years. It was a very good boat for coastal cruising. I also sailed a 105mc recently and they have definitely improved the boat. I'm not sure about the cockpit enclosures, but the screacher track across the bows is nice, the interior feels a bit more open, and the instruments are greatly improved.
The nice things about the Gemini are it has quite a bit of interior space (queen sized bunk in master) and still fits in standard slips. It points fairly well due to the dual centerboards. It is nice to have the engine out of the hulls and avoid the associated smells and noise.
Drawbacks include a bit less easy to manuever in tight quarters with a single engine on the centerline (have to keep centerboards down for marina handling). The Stilette drive leg is kind of a pain. I had a couple of occasions where it popped out of the locked position going into reverse and it was a drill to get it back into forward, locked, and into reverse again before hitting the dock. I eventually rigged a 'preventer' line from the drive leg up under the bridgedeck to the bow to ease this worry.
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