It was a 14 foot minimum weight Bluejay.
I don't do much racing at all, only maybe just messing around with a friend once in a while. I bought it second hand, came with stainless cable running rigging.
And a deep cycle marine battery and bilge pump that ought to have tipped me off to the fact that this rotten bark had sprung a leak somewhere along the aft chine.
It was a fun little boat, and it sailed pretty well despite the leak. The only problem was that I tried to fix it.
It ended up that I'd bought and onion instead of a boat; I peeled layer after rotten layer away till I was left with nothing but tears.
That said, cable running rigging isn't really all that uncommon around here. A lot of guys are sailing homebuilts, or something they built up from bare hulls, and they need to buy stainless cable for standing rigging, winches, and harpoons anyway, so it just makes sense to buy in bulk.
I think kevlar is all the rage with the racers right now, but that might be old news. Like I said, racing isn't something I'm really to into.
As soon as I get some money saved up I'm gonna have made/make myself a pocket cruiser, probably a cutter, with an old timey look like a sharpie or something. Humph, a sharpie cutter! Can you see the coming together of intrests?
Anyway, I want to build for strength and seaworthiness, probably positive bouancy, narrow beam, and I want the cabin trunk layed up in one piece with the hull. Probably build a foam form and lay the glass over that. I'm thinking of using a thick epoxy/kevlar laminate. Speed is secondary, I want something tough I can take of for months at a time to the Ten Thousand Islands in and not have to wory about something breaking. I like an overbuilt minimalist approach. But I guess I should save this for a sailing forum or something...
I'm not accusing anyone here of obsession, I'm basicaly saying that the stainless thing gets stressed a bit too much, and that with minimal maintainence a carbon or tool steel knife is servicable, so if you particularly like a knife that happens to be made of an alloy that's less corrosion resistant than the 440 series, that's fine. After, 316 is about as stainless as steel gets, but it makes a lousy knife.