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Good old boat needs your input for magazine story of our beloved 323

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rbrtfeld:
Just saw where the Pearson 323 will be in the November edition of Good Old Boat.

Kgorby:
Hi my name is Ken, I sail on lake Erie out of Sandusky Ohio. It was my Pearson 323 in the Good Old Boat magazine. I hope you all are happy with my work representing this great boat

Captain Bri:
Well I may have to order it from "back issues" when it becomes available, since I am not a subscriber.

While looking over their site I found an index to many of their articles online, and there are some good ones:

http://www.goodoldboat.com/reader_services/articles/index.php

Rusty Pelican:
If anyone has the review, please post.

Captain Bri:


I downloaded the review but I don't want to post due to copyright - but I did include a couple of screenshots.

In my opinion it was more or less just a detailed walkthrough of the boat.  It includes a lot of detail about the boats "pieces and parts". Only one paragraph (or perhaps sentence) was written on its sailing characteristics where it did a pay complement to sailing well when reaching and running, which the author seemed to find surprising. 

Many of the owners comments they published seemed a bit negative except a couple that said it was solidly built. Their retail price estimates seemed off at 11K-16K - I found YachtWorld's average asking price over 22K in a recent search.

I found it a little strange that a follow-on article compared the P323 design and performance to two IOR designed boats, as if it was a racing design. A quick look at the keel profiles will show quite different boats. From what I have read Bill Shaw said the design was contemporary cruising without regard to IOR rules.

It did have several complements for the boat:

* Deck is pure simplicity and functionality
* The 323 hull looks sleek and powerful
* Can get up and go on a reach
* The rig is simple and powerful and easily handled
* Sidedecks are wide with elevated toerail
* Has aged quite well compared to its contemporaries
* One they missed: Stiff hull reinforced with longitudinal stringers


 
--- Quote from: Kgorby on October 25, 2017, 09:24:47 AM ---Hi my name is Ken, I sail on lake Erie out of Sandusky Ohio. It was my Pearson 323 in the Good Old Boat magazine. I hope you all are happy with my work representing this great boat

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Ken - nice work, your boat is looking ship-shape!

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