You must learn to shut your eyes to fancy gadgets, large motors, huge aft cabins, water makers, freezers, bow thrusters, ice makers, microwaves, even generators, and develop a new set of eyes for the important things such as small, strong portholes, water-tightness, proper construction, supported rudders, good sized properly attached keels, reinforced bulkheads, good deck to hull joints, strong anchor points for the rigging, etc So what we all really need to do is stop letting marketeers decide for us what is attractive and learn to look at boats (or people, or anything for that matter) with a
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