beer can racing in the San Francisco bay
I have an s-25, first boat i've been on that's nothaze gray. The south SF bay is windy as can be with normal summer conditions in the 15 to 25 kt.range. I sail a full main to 20 kts. then reef, this with a 90% jib. At about 25 kts. the wave period is about equal to the waterline and thingsjust get too rough even for a hair-shirt like me.Con your friends as rail meat to keep things stiff. The boat handles like a big dingy, tiller &mainsheet. Singlehanding can be a chore because the hull will not track without a hand on the helm. ( my 250 lbs. moving around might have something to do with this.) I enjoy the heck out of mine, once heeled it seems to stop at the rail and go faster or sideways but not over. I must say that with the wind we have here I've never flown thespinniker wich I'm sure would broach the boat ifhandled wrong. If the one you're looking at hasan outboard then know that waves tend to hobby-horse it out of the water in anything much over dead calm.