alright already! if i put this out will you stop bugging me? i live on a 28 o'day, right behind abby's dad. i've been sailing for 20 years or so, starting with a 18 cutty that my brother built, but did not learn how to sail. i "borrowed" it for a few years when i lived in vancouver, and taught myself ( i thought ) how to sail by cruising the gulf islands etc., culminating in a single hand trip from vancouve to victoria to nanaimo to vancouver again. lucky i'm not dead. i have since ( recently ) got back into sailing with a contessa 26, but when the lady got the house, i needed a bigger boat. now i'm living on water doctor, a 28 o'day. it's big for a 28, and i don't have to bend over to put on my pants. ( a 26 contessa has 5'6" headroom. )