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[quote=Indyxc]Hello all, I am getting back into sailing and have a couple questions.

Long story short, I got a great deal from a friend's dad on a 2000 Nacra 5.0 with trailer. Decent condition, and no question I am buying it, but one of the hulls did have some damaged and was patched. See pic here, front of the bow, and upper right.

http://img189.imageshack.us/f/nacra1.jpg/

Over the winter I am planning on tearing this thing down, sanding the hull patches down, redoing the hulls with better resin, sanding and repainting. My first question is how are these to work on? And what I mean by that is what is the hull material, and is it easy to work on?

Second, I grew up sailing a 70s 18f hobie on lake michigan. It was lots of fun, but some of the draw backs where it was heavy making it not fun to pull up and down the beach, and when it was capsize even with 2 people it was nasty to get back over.

How will this Nacra 5.0 compare in performance? From some of the reading I've done it should be fairly easy to sail solo? It's going to be sailed mostly on a 1300 acre lake, with small waves and gusty winds.

Thanks for the input!<em>edited by: Indyxc, Sep 02, 2010 - 07:33 AM</em> [/quote]

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