I like all the advice you're getting about mastering the smaller boat. Your 30 isn't much different from the C&C 27 my father taught hundreds to sail aboard in Victoria. She is a sweetheart of a boat that gives you really good feedback when you make adjustments to your sails. Once you get a good handle on sailing her, you'll be able to tell when the main or jib needs to come in or be eased, just by the feel of the helm. You learn faster on a smaller boat, too.
There is also the handling factor. It's much, much harder to stop a 42-footer than a 30, and much easier to do really expensive damage with the bigger boat. you may be familiar with the Cube-Square Law: if you double the dimensions, you quadruple the area and octuple the mass. When I go offshore I will always pick a crewmember who has lots of small-boat experience over one who has only sailed big boats. It scales up easily, down; not so well. That being said, when you get comfortable with the 30, by all means jump into a 42. Sure it's lots of extra work and money, but personally I like working on my boat. I'm sure you will, too. Andy C&C 40 Peregrine > > -- Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Ave Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ phone +401 965 5260
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