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SCAMP vs Montgomery 17
Mini-Cruiser Madness

SCAMP vs Montgomery 17

A Round 3 Mini-Madness Matchup

Feb 27, 2023
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Sorry to say the decisions don’t get any easier going forward. This time you’re forced to choose between the cognoscente’s favorite production trailersailer and the wildly popular minimalist camp-cruiser. Good luck.

In our review of SCAMP performance we wrote: Scamp has been called “sneaky fast,” and compared to a bumblebee for flying better than its shape suggests it should. However you want to say it, Scamp’s performance tends to surprise folks. Sailor and boatbuilder Dave Lucas’s account of seeing a Scamp under sail in-person for the first time was representative of the sort of thing we hear often:

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