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Volume 29
Number 13
July 1, 2003

Express 27

A boat both of and ahead of its time, the Express 27 is one of the legendary combinations of Carl Schumacher design and Terry Alsberg construction—and proof that quality keeps its value.

Those who sail ultra-light displacement boats have had a natural mantra ever since Bill Lee coined it years ago: "Fast is Fun." Like most slogans, it's catchy; like many it doesn't tell the whole story. True, by the early '80s, ULDB pioneers like Ron Moore (Moore 24) George Olson (Olson 30), and Bill Lee (Merlin and the Santa Cruz sleds) had shaken up the IOR establishment and made home town Santa Cruz a speed-seekers' Mecca. Still, most ultralights at that time were "one-way wonders" with no real ability to go upwind. And, from construction to tuning, from accommodation to handling, most entailed some form or another of compromise or trauma.…

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