How to Choose the Right Boat for Offshore Sailing

This will be a loosely organized open discussion on various topics relating to offshore sailing. At any time if you folks in the audience want to ask a question or if any of our corporate members want to chime in Please do so. We're gonna start with boat selection and gear selection And we'll start with the planning stages Basically what I always like to ask people right off the bat is why you chose the boat that you chose The Valiant 40 Sometimes you think it looks like maybe it's a slow boat, you know, it's got a double it's a double-ender But it's designed by Robert Perry and it was his first performance cruiser  and so it was kind of that mixture