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Old 04-09-2009, 08:53 AM   #44 (permalink)
brian eiland
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Originally Posted by K1W1
Hi, I like Lorens summation of the CL 63, I have never sailed long distance on one but a good friend of mine who comes from a commercial and then more high performance sailing background ran one for a family for about 3 yrs.

It was always going somewhere new and was always reliable and got there safely.

He was always praising the "little ship" qualities of it.
As I've said more than a few times. "For truly long-range cruising and/or remote exploration, the motorsailer can outshine both the sailing aux and the trawler types".
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