Catalina 36! With almost 2,000 hulls launched, the Frank Butler-designed Catalina 36 is one of the most popular 36 foot sailboatsever built, and a quick inspection makes it easy to understand why: it was well built by one of the most successfulsailboat builders in the world but not terribly expensive, is very spacious (both above and below deck), easy and fun tosail even short-handed, and is equally at home racing, daysailing or cruising. Cruising World sums the design up as a "happy blend of conservative, medium-displacement cruising logic and spryone-design racing potential". Also note that there is an active Catalina 36 Owner's Association, with their own web sitecontaining much useful information (do a quick search on Google to reach). Recent survey available upon request.