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drippingwet · 12-29-2004, 01:15 PM

Any sailors here?

Iwant2bafencer · 12-29-2004, 02:11 PM

I've been on two faries, does that count?

I'm considering of getting a sail boat when I retire but other than that, nope.

drippingwet · 12-29-2004, 02:13 PM

I'm talking about dinghies/small catamarans.

Inquartata · 12-30-2004, 03:15 AM

Yes, there are a couple of dingy posters on the board.

Oh, wait, you said dinghy...

Never mind.

Anyway, I will only sail on a drakkar, and then only if we are going somewhere worth raiding and the captain has a lucky reputation.

Louweasel · 12-30-2004, 06:10 AM

Aaarrrrrr, me hearties, shiver me timbers, splice the mainbrace, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

I used to be able to sail a Toppa. And a Laser. But this was when i was too little to pull up thesail on a windsurfer, so it was a while ago. I fell in some lakes.

Inquartata · 12-30-2004, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Louweasel

I used to be able to sail...a Laser.

Never mind, private joke....

Quote:

I fell in some lakes.

Weasels are at ease in aquatic circumstances.

Zilverzmurfen · 12-30-2004, 06:38 AM

I used to sail an "optimist" dhingy when I was younger.

FoilyGeezer · 12-30-2004, 07:56 AM

Sailing is my other religion.

drippingwet · 12-30-2004, 08:00 AM

Well, I use to race laser, instruct dinghies, I even started learning about yachts and windsurfing. But fencing took over and now I don't think I'm gonna bother renewing my sailing club membership and I might sell me boat.

Any opinions?

Inquartata · 12-30-2004, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by drippingwet

I use to race laser

I'll bet the laser won every time, eh? Hard to outrace the speed of light...

drippingwet · 12-30-2004, 08:48 AM

Well, apart from handicaps, Lasers race Lasers.

Larrison · 12-31-2004, 03:31 AM

Shields, 10 meter class -- crewed, captained and raced. (Not very successfully raced, I have to admit. Managed to tangle the Spinnaker on the jib stay when we blew it on the first race...)

Crew on a friends Ericson 35 sometimes.

And am very seriously looking at a MacGregor 26 as a fun boat to mess around in.

drippingwet · 12-31-2004, 07:45 AM

Is that a keelboat/yacht? I'm more interested in the high performance dinghies/dinghy style catamarans. If you want fun, try a skiff or a multihull. Skimming over the surface at 20 knots aint too shabby, especially when you're horizontal, held up by a wire in a force 5. Skiffs might take a while to learn, but multuhulls can be learned pretty quick. I learned in about 6 hours (I was already a monohull sailor).

Dart 16
Musto Skiff
Wirework on the Musto

Larrison · 01-01-2005, 04:46 AM

All the boats I listed were monohulls. The Shields is a classic 10 meter day sailer (open cockpit), and a great boat to learn to sail and race on.

http://www.occsailing.com/pages/fleet/sailshields.html

The Macgregor is a very interesting motor sailer -- up to 20 knots (!) with a 50 hp outboard, and a pretty good sailboat (using water ballast) and trailerable. It's also reasonably inexpensive -- a fully equipped NEW sailboat including trailer and sails is around $20 K. As a trailerable boat, it seems kinda cool to take to new places and get there fast, and then use the speed of the motor sailer to get somewhere quickly on the water to spend the reset of the time sailing around in leisure. But.. $20 K is $20 K.. so I'm looking at the moment.

http://www.macgregor26.com/

I've sailed Sabots and Lasers and small cat's. *Wry smile* was hiked out on a cat one time off the coast, when we had an interesting accident. My ex-sailing buddy had just bought it from a fanatic Hobbie racer -- and it was supposed to be a real fast boat. We were testing it offshore near Laguna on a beautiful day and it was just screaming along, with me hiked out and we heard "Crack!" We put the boat down, checked it out -- nothing. So we turned it back into the wind, picked up speed again, and as I hiked wayyy out we heard another "Crack!' and the boat just disentegrated, pieces flying all over. After checking out to find we were both OK, we got picked up by a passing yachtsman, and towed the wreckage back to the beach. Turned out the fanatic racer had cut out every ounce of extra weight, including some of the bracings in the hulls. When I hiked out (and I'm not small.. 6'1, 200+ lbs), the decking on the lower hull just tore out, ripping the hull in half, almost flipping the boat as it nose dived into the water. Just lucky neither of us got clonked.

http://www.ussailing.org/multihull/images03/hobie16.jpg

Manethrin · 01-01-2005, 12:45 PM

Sailed on the Yorktown here

Tigerlily86 · 01-01-2005, 01:55 PM

Sounds like fun Larrison. Im a hobie fanatic. Ive been sailing cats since i was ten mostly 16's but recently 17's. Ive also sailed sunfish and lasers, but catamarans rule the world. One of the people i sail with had a fiasco like yours. He had taken a bunch of kids out on his 18(i think) because the sailing camp was that week, and it was a really windy day. Apparently there was a huge gust of wind in the middle of the lake that he didnt see and he sailed right into it. His mast snapped in half and almost fell on top of all of them. Im just glad it wasnt me.