SSB: how many 2021'ers are planning on using one?
Now that the SSB is no long required, I'm torn about having one. New ones are very expensive but working, used ones have come way down in price. Installing one on a boat is not a trivial exercise, it used to be up there with building the emergency rudder as the #1 and #2 "big jobs" to do. However, in 2008 it added quite a bit to my experience during the race. If half the fleet is planning on having one, I'd be very tempted to find a way to get one on the boat.
Any comments from "likely" 2021 bug-lighters?
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
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