"We took Urge out for it's first sail on Sunday with 13-18knts wind: what a performance! Hit double digits on the first spinnaker run and 7.2 driving up wind. The boat does much better than we expected in chop and loses very little headway. We had two round-ups, one under whites, the other under spin, but with absolutely no trauma as the boat comes easily back under control. The spinnaker colors are great and what a massive kite for a 30'- beautiful shoulders on it too. Launches and douses were easy."

Guys- you built a great boat!

Thanks,
James Gilmore, Uncontrollable Urge

PS-We had one of the Hendo (Henderson 30) foredeck guys on with us and he loves it- says that under those conditions, they would have been constantly changing headsails and rounding up all day.

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