My beloved Dirigo 17, the White Whale, had been in semi-retirement since 1995, when I completed my highly-customized CLC Patuxent 17 and launched it as my primary boat; the Dirigo then became my Winter boat because of its extraordinary stability.

But the Patuxent is just as heavy as the Dirigo, and, as I'm not getting any younger no matter how hard I try, I'll be getting a much lighter craft quite soon--thinking about an Epic 16X.