1.   But so is a sailboat. . . .

2.   But to yacht historians, the massive white sailboat is a treasure as valuable to racing as a Rembrandt is to the art world.

3.   My sailboats were just dinghies and I never took them out in gales.

4.   The first sailboat I raced was a wooden Lightning at Echo Camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks.

5.   The sailboat was not in the best of shape when it arrived.