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		<title>Report from the Florida 120</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to work the day before the event, so I was up late getting the boat loaded and hooked up, and probably didn&#8217;t do the most organized job of it.  Still, I was more or less ready, and the forecast looked pretty good&#8211; light winds and flat water.  Once again, I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slipping into Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All is not howitzers and roses on the boat design front.  My little cartop cat, Slipper, is proving a tough nut to crack.
When last I talked about Slipper&#8217;s deficiencies, I was planning a couple of &#8220;improvements.&#8221;  Over the last few days, I cut back the length of the rudders by four inches, and put fences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slipper again</title>
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My first time sailing Slipper, I was somewhat discouraged by her reluctance to tack, or at least, her reluctance compared to Slider, my 16 foot open beachcruiser.  So, my first attempt at making her a snappier tacker was to cut a lot of area from the big skegs I installed to support the barn door [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slidercat.com/blog/wordpress/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Slipper Goes Sailing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been waiting for over a week to take Slipper on her first sail, but the weather hadn&#8217;t cooperated at all.  Yesterday afternoon, the winds dropped unexpectedly, and as soon as Nancy got home from work, I hooked up the trailer and away we went to our neighborhood launch ramp.  Our sons were both away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slidercat.com/blog/wordpress/?p=222</link>
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		<title>Avoiding First Launch Disasters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been desperate to try out my new little 14 foot cartop catamaran, but not desperate enough to tempt fate.  For a first sail in a new sailboat (and particularly in a new design) winds should be fairly light.   If you take a new boat out into even moderately heavy air, you&#8217;re asking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slidercat.com/blog/wordpress/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Costa Rican Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young man in Costa Rica recently bought a set of Slider plans.
He tells me that there are few sailboats there, and wondered if Slider would be a good boat for learning to sail.  I told him I thought she would be very good for that purpose, since she has no vices.
Any boat intended for [...]]]></description>
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