Deck or Keel stepped mast?

[Jim Fulton]

The boat was designed with a keel-stepped mast; changing it to a deck-stepped mast would require a non-trivial structural alteration of the hull. And then there's the rig. When you get through, you will have changed a lovely Lyle Hess design into something else at great expense, probably without improving it. If it has too much sail area for SF Bay, tie in a reef.

Jim Fulton