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Consulting Time II
Ocean Navigator Issue # 136 March/April 2004 story and photos |
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| Morris Yachts debuted its newest 486, Consulting Time II, at the Annapolis Sailboat Show this past October. At first glance, the new Morris may seem to be nothing more than a tweaked variation on two of Chuck Paine's previous designs, Firefly and Reindeer, but a quick look around proves Consulting Time II is a very different boat.
I was invited along for the passage from Annapolis to St. George, Bermuda, after the Annapolis show, but my first opportunity to sail the boat came just after the boat show broke up. |
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| The owner, Doug Diehl, an experienced offshore sailer from Houston, attempted to test sail it for a photo shoot in the 35-40-knot Chesapeake breeze. With a double reef and a 150-square-foot storm forestaysail we did the best we could to put the boat through its paces--hardly the best way to experience a new boat. But despite our brief and windy sail, it was clear to me that the boat would be an able passagemaker.
The owner's plans for Consulting Time II involve coastal curising in Maine with winters in the Caribbean... |
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