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LOL My very best buddy on the planet (we were like next cradle over kind of buddies) has a 45 foot Morgan "Out Isle" ketch that he's had in the family for decades. We sailed all over the Bahamas in it when we were teenagers (with the family units of course) and many's the time I helped him out as "crew" when he was a charter captain in his 30's.

Now he's in his 50's, has his PH.D and is a successful shrink. Recently out from under a bloody divorce, I think this is exactly the thing he's going to love. In fact, he's been thinking that what he really needs isn't so much this huge Morgan, but rather a smaller 30-35 foot sloop without the center cockpit and hydraulic steering. Rather than the Morgan wallowing down Biscayne Bay on a light breeze and needing a 25 knot gusty day to get "heeled" something that has cable steering and acts a bit livelier in lighter south Florida weather. Do you think he could find something good on a trade? The Morgan is I think a 1980 vintage. The boat before that was a 41 Out Isle and that was the boat we took to the Bahamas as kids, then he moved up a notch.