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LOL! That's a rhetorical question, right...?

Hey Dan,

Why, it's the preferred choice of first-time sailboat owners, of course - one of those Florida-built jobs... (grin)

Take a close look at the pic below, and at what one news story described as "......whose anchor chain had ripped a squiggly gash through the fiberglass hull like a piece of string through wet paper. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/beached-sailor-races-against-time/2011/08/28/gIQAiOZllJ_story.html

That anchor chain has sawed right through the STEM of that Hunter, what should be one of the strongest sections of any hull above the waterline... Un-freakin'-believable...

That boat should be rated to carry a Chinese Rocna, and nothing more... (grin)

best regards,

Jon

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