One half dozen or the other, it depends what you want. Full keel boats are trucks, but if your going offshore one design doesn't really have any advantages over the other.

Buy on quality, one heck of a bargain if you can stand an ugly as sin boat are the Contest's. No many people know them in this country so you can pick them up for a song, and they are not very pretty, nor do they sail all that great.

But they are built like tanks and I'd trust one in a blow, they are a North Sea boat. Construction wise they are no different than a Swan or Rassy, but you can pick them up for the price of something lame.

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