Re: P19 owners, rise up and defend your boats!

Ted Duke (tedduke@usa.net)
Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:02:00 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Eric,

I agree with you, and won't flame anyone. I suggested that the
gent interested in a Potter should contact someone who owned
one.

Personnally I would rather have a 32 footer (with crew to do my
bidding) in each place I might want to sail, but the Potter 19
makes a reasonable compromise (and I replaced the undersized
blocks, and if shes not square I can't see it). <VBG>

Ted Duke

Eric Johnson wrote:
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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.
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> 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.