Many years ago, I found this boat on Craigslist when my wife was visiting family in Europe for a month. On a call, I mentioned I was going to look at a sailboat, and she sort of dismissed it.

So, I went to see the boat. I liked the boat. I bought the boat.

A few days before she was to fly back, we talked again, and she mentioned how much she missed me and how she was homesick. I said, "Don't worry, you'll rest all day Saturday, and Sunday we can take the boat out to the lake."

".... What boat...?!?"

Oops...

But she loved being out on the water, and we sailed it all summer, including the time our longtime family friend/realtor/sailing instructor turtled us on a bad gybe. But it was a little small for two adults, we really didn't have the room for it in the garage, and so I sold it to a woman who drove from the coast to get it.

Now that we have a kid, I really, really regret selling it. It was a perfect little boat for one adult and a kid to cruise around the lake on, and to teach sailing on.

The Escape had a roller reefing system for the sail - you pulled a rope to rotate the mast to wrap the sail, and you pulled out the sheet at the end of the boom to draw the sail out. The boom was high enough and far enough forward not to hit your head on a gybe when seated at the back, and the hull shape kept us pretty dry except when beating through chop.

Wish I could find another one, but they don't make them anymore, and finding plastic boats like this one is hard.