1974 Soling 26, Lake Ray Hubbard, Rockwall, Texas, asking $3,500, price reduced 9/7/05 to $2,500, ad expired

Built by Borresson, Olympic racer w/ keel, huge cockpit 7 ft, micro-adj. for everything, self tacking jib makes for easy handling. It has self bailers but you have to be on a reach or run for them to use a vacuum action to work. This baby really carves turns quick and is extremely responsive to tiller movements. Points higher than anything on the water, bendable mast makes sailing in any condition even in 35+ winds with full sails no problem and you can fly in those conditions when you raise the spinnaker. Spinnaker is very simple to raise or lower never a mess or a disaster. I sail with only one partner or alone on occasions in very choppy water with average summer winds 25-35 knots. The ride is quite adventurous but stable. Passing other boats is a normal occurrence without any effort. Rigs in about 10 minutes with Main sail attached to the boom. No compromises seemed to have been made for this boat to achieve speed. Fin shaped keel, narrow 6 ft beam, knife blade rudder. Making adjustments to backstay, forestay, Cunningham, vang, outhaul, inhaul, downhaul, main or jib traveler, jib clew, spinnaker, upper and lower shrouds, while under sail is a breeze.