Size, where boats are concerned, is at best something of an odd duck and, as a result, I hear a lot of people making statements like "I need a forty-foot boat" and suchlike.
The problem is the given length of a boat is only one factor of size and within that 40-foot envelope you have all manner of boat sizing...
Take the CAL 40 for example...
...compare it to pretty much any boat built in the last ten or twenty years and you'll see that length on deck is a very poor way to categorize sailboats in terms of useful space aboard.
Which, I might add, does not mean that I find the CAL 40 lacking in any way but forty-foot boats today are a lot "bigger" than they used to be.
Listening to Those Darlins
So it goes...
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