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John- If your contact decides against buying it, please contact me. Our new Ensign Fleet (76, in Mattapoisett MA) is looking to get some young Ensign sailors on the water, and a project boat would be just the vehicle to do so. Depending on its location, and condition/price ratio, we'd be interested ...

I'm also curious to know about Soy-Strip, as I may give it a go as well. I bought a gallon of Aqua-Strip in the fall, another environmentally safe stripper. I had mixed results. Some patches of paint peeled off the hull came off easily, others wouldn't release after several applications. I probably ...

On golf ball dimples, here's a good article that explains the aerodynamics and the dimples contribution to ball flight in layman's terms.

http://www.titleist.com/technology/details.asp?id=19

Sou'west and By West of Cape Cod by Llewellyn Howland or Catboat Summers by John Conway. Particularly good for Buzzards Bay kids!

Thanks Wayne...maybe I'll take you up on the offer this spring.

all great info...thanks again, Clay. Didn't realize the SS27/28 wasn't a cored hull like the others. i thought all the 3 Luders boats were cored. Good to know, as I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of a cored hull either.

Clay- Extremely helpful - thanks! Just the kind of feedback I was hoping to gather. Since you've got a fair amount of experience on both, have you found the sailing characteristics of the SS28's sailplan (w/ fractional rig) much different than the CD27? That is, is it noticeably easier to manhandle ...

Hi all- My wife and I are in the market for a coastal cruiser, and have narrowed my list down to the CD27, CD28, or Sea Sprite 28. The many comparisons on this board between these models have been extremely helpful in helping me whittle my preferences down, but I haven't been able to find any direct...