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Home Forums Search Boat Show TSBB Roster Chandlery Events Classifieds Resources More Fun About TSBB	Instructions/FAQ | Rules & Etiquette | Clear Cookies View Thread | Post Response | Return to Index | Read Prev Msg | Read Next Msg | Hmm Posted By: Peter Date: 9/24/07 12:34p.m. Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Easily driven (Bob Frak) Does it actually say that in your owner's manual? Can't find it in mine! I would suggest that the 2023 is typical of a light 23 foot boat. Her ballast is best-placed of any of the popular comparable water-ballast models and is really not that tender compared to other, even traditionally keeled, similar boats. With a basically sound and well-maintained boat, it is the sailor that makes the difference when the wind and sea gets big. I can tell you that the 2023 surfs quite nicely in 30+knot breeze and an 8-ft sea. ANY boat can break in 25 knots/4' seas, if mishandled. If you go out on any large body of water and are more than an hour from a safe haven, you better be ready and know how to deal a squall or whatever Mother Nature cares to throw at you. That includes being able to (and knowing how to) reef when the spray is flying, etc, etc. If you sail on the SF Bay, pretty much every day in the summer it blows 25-30 with nice big chop (depending on the current). Reefing on a small (2023) boat is SOP. That's when it is just starting to get really fun! Anyway, IMO, it is the sailor and not the boat that determines "seaworthy" FWIW- -Peter

Messages In This Thread

santana 23d -- garrett -- 9/7/07 12:19p.m.

santana 23d for sale -- ron -- 9/23/07 6:08p.m.

2023 -- ed -- 9/23/07 9:21p.m.

Easily driven -- Bob Frak -- 9/24/07 6:19a.m.

 Hmm  -- Peter -- 9/24/07 12:34p.m.

Sailor? -- George E. Norkus, Santana 2023A Tall, SE Michigan -- 9/24/07 1:57p.m.

I totally agree.... -- Bob Frak -- 9/24/07 2:08p.m.

Reefing -- Bob Frak -- 9/25/07 5:04a.m.

Downwind -- Bob Frak -- 9/25/07 5:17a.m.

Downwind -- Peter -- 9/25/07 1:27p.m.

Reefing -- Peter -- 9/25/07 1:16p.m.

What is the best way to tune the rig w/ no backstay? -- Todd-2023C-SFBay -- 9/25/07 5:22p.m.

Allot of questions -- Bob Frak -- 9/25/07 8:01p.m.

Tuning -- Peter -- 9/26/07 8:56a.m.

hound? -- Paul Germain -- 9/26/07 5:50p.m.

something like this? -- Seth Dabney, 2023-C, Oxford, MS -- 9/26/07 6:21p.m.

Yep -- Peter -- 9/27/07 7:41a.m.

Thanks, Peter, I'd never thought about it. -- Gary, Santana 2023A, Milwaukee -- 10/2/07 8:16a.m.

One Long Bolt -- Peter -- 10/4/07 7:56a.m.

Tuning link -- Bob Frak -- 9/28/07 3:34a.m.

Bob, you wrote the following -- Gary, 2023, Milwaukee -- 10/1/07 6:16a.m.

Bolt size -- Bob Frak -- 10/1/07 5:17p.m.

Bob, if you ever run a halyard up the mast, I'd suggest you lose those circlips. -- Gary, Santana 2023A, Milwaukee -- 10/2/07 6:49a.m.

Dang, that one is REALLY -- Peter -- 10/2/07 7:56a.m.

Tagged -- Bob Frak -- 10/2/07 11:37a.m.

Hound -- Bob Frak -- 10/2/07 2:19p.m.

Rivetless -- Peter -- 10/4/07 7:32a.m.

Really? What do you mean by "tender"? -- Gary, 2023, Milwaukee -- 9/25/07 7:14a.m.

30+ wind -- George E. Norkus, Santana 2023A, SE Michigan -- 9/25/07 6:01p.m.

Agreed! -- Gary, 2023, Milwaukee -- 9/27/07 7:42a.m.

 

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