The boat was so tippy, you would have thought you were racing a laser. I was a rookie skipper and desperate to win my first race and took a flyer and went into the beach in light air. I was the last boat to finish the race 5 minutes before the deadline. A few years later, and with more racing experience, I rigged the 1981 Cat 30 Chocolate 'O' and trophied in almost ever race I entered. She was rigged as a PHRF racer from the beginning and was tricked out with a double spreader tapered mast, rod rigging, tiller, hydraulics and was rigged very light from the beginning.
All aluminum winches, no shower or forward water tank, and a faired keel.
The interior was standard and we raced with everything on board. I think it was the fastest Catalina 30 ever built. I won the 1984 Nationals in San Diego in the Tall Rig Class and in 1985 on Lake Washington using a borrowed standard rig boat that had never been raced. Soon afterward, I sold Chocolate 'O' and retired from racing.