I have been looking for a ballasted 16' sailboat with a centerboard for 3 years now. There are a few companies that make them, but they aren't very popular, so used ones are rare; and I sure am not paying the price for a new one. In the interim I bought a crappy boat to use while I search for what I want.
A Compac 16 showed up on CL. It comes in 2 models; with and without the centerboard. It is $4,000; which is way too much for a used sailboat, but if is my dreamboat...
I sent him an email asking if it has a centerboard because the posting doesn't say. He replied that there was plenty of information on the internet; I should look it up. I told him there were 2 models. He told me I was an (Admin edit).
Presumably it does not have a centerboard or he would have said it did, so it is nothing of interest to me. But geez...
Just venting.