There have been a lot of “test boats” floating in and out Practical Sailor’s 45-year history. Former editor Dan Spurr painted the bottom of his C&C 33 in zebra stripes in an early effort to glean bottom paint data. Drew Frye’s multihulls and Ralph Naranjo’s Ericson 41 make often appear in these pages.  

Ted Hood and Dieter Empacher drew the lines for this well-regarded centerboarder—taking after Hood’s successful string of Robins. Bristol crafted our boat just three years after the ink was wet on Practical Sailor’s inaugural issue. Like the many test boats before her, she’s given us a chance to evaluate bottom coatings, roller furlers, a new windlass, mainsail luff track, a new GPS and other odds and ends. Now she is for sale.

Other boats beckon, and our sturdy, all-glass, shoal-draft cruiser with the lustrous interior will find a new port of call and a skipper who’ll love her as we have. For more information, send me an email at [email protected]. I’ll send back a .pdf with a cascade of pictures, specs, inventory, and what we believe to be a fair price.

– Tim Cole, Publisher , Practical Sailor