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Christine's avatar

Regarding accommodations, there are several levels to this. These would include from most basic to more accommodating:

1) You can sleep on on it but only if you add a boom tent and floor boards, e.g., Scamp.

2) You have a cuddy into which you can crawl to get out of nasty weather.

3) You have an area designed for sleeping but not much else, e.g., the v-berth on a WWP-15, Neptune 16.

4) You have two berths, v-berth or quarter, and some (perhaps) sitting headroom, e.g., Com-Pac 16. This likely will have room for a portable head.

5) You have sitting headroom and extra berths in addition to the v-berth and room for a portable head, e.g., Sparrow 16, Montgomery 17.

6) You have 4 berths, sitting headroom and a table at which to eat, along with a head, e.g., Catalina 22 etc.

7) You have all of 6 PLUS standing headroom, e.g., MacGregor 26X.

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Dale Niemann's avatar

I don't think the advantages and disadvantages of hull type were mentioned. Round, hard chine or flat bottom. I happen to very much like the initial stability of my hard chined Core Sound 17. It has good initial stability and can handle a blow. It has a slight V hull. It sails very nicely fairly upright.

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