Looks like fun! Nice to see the X can easily handle something like that. Have you taken her out for a shake-down cruise with the family yet? Seems like it's a nice little entry level boat, and I agree with the previous poster who said 'real boats have masts and booms, genoas and furlers, etc.'. Sailing up the East Coast hugh? I'm doing that this Wednesday. We started in a little town called Rock Hall, MD (across the bay from Annapolis) and sailed to Brielle, NJ, and I'm going out this week to finish the trip up to Hallifax, down the St. Lawrence, and through the Great Lakes up to Northern Michigan. I'll take lots of pics and let you know how it goes. Should be a fun time.

Any thoughts about the future 50 footer? I would humbly suggest an Island Packet, perhaps a 445 or 485. Take a look at them, they are amazing boats, although they're not anywhere near being trailerable with their 14,000 lbs of ballast and a nearly 16 foot beam. After sailing in two gails just off the Jersey Coast, I can say it's one of the best boats I've every been on. It handled 6 foot waves and 30-40 kt winds with gusts up to 50 kts without any hesitation. A very solid, reliable, beautiful sail boat. I'll post some pictures of those if you'd like.

In the meantime, good luck with the boat and have fun. Don't forget the great old saying "owning a boat is like standing in a cold shower and throughing $100 bills down the drain..."