RE: P19 owners, rise up and defend your boats!
Eric Johnson (etj@nwlink.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:36:43 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> > It sounds like that unscupulous dealer that told someone on the list
> > about a year or so ago about how horrible the Potter 19s are has struck
> > again. Read the latest notes on the Trailer Sailor BB
> > (www.trailersailor.com) and see for yourself. With this kind of crap
> > floating about, I think IM should respond as well. This is potentially
> > seriously damaging charges this dealer is saying about the boats and
> > even though much of what he told this guy is crap, it is now a matter of
> > public interest.
Actually, I know I'll draw flames for this, but I pretty much agree with
what that dealer had to say (to a degree). In fact, his comments were pretty
much dead-on, if a little exaggerated. What isn't mentioned is that any
small trailerable sailboat is going to have a number of things you can
criticize about them.
Every boat is a compromise, and I'm comfortable with the compromises in the
P19 for the type of sailing I do. Stuff i don't like, I've fixed. I don't
know that we should go en masse to that bbs and participate in a flame war.