Dinghy advice

[brums evil twin]

know a few of you are up for putting rubber on and getting wet.

Anyway - I am joining a sailing club!! Step one almost complete and the next step is starting to looking for a boat.

I will be starting with my son big lad and the 2 of us will be sailing it. So I was thinking of something like a Laser 2000.

Looking for advice, other boats to consider and also if anyone has one for sale that would be great.

Thanks
nic

[Marcellus]

If you’re joining a club which double handlers do they have a good fleet of?

Buy the same as the source of knowledge will be invaluable.

During the summer a friend and I thought we’d do one of the clubs bank holiday pursuit races in an RS200 he’d just bought to sail with his children.

After an hour we couldn’t rig the spinnaker, fortunately as there were other 200 sailors around we were soon shown how - neither of us are exactly novices but demonstrates the value of having a good fleet of the same.

Not only that but most fleets will be trying to encourage you so you’ll get the chance to be or have a a guest crew/helm to learn from.

If you were to be joining my club then I’d be pointing you toward the Fireball, FF15, RS200 or RS400 (in that order)

[Huntsman]

Last time I was a member of a sailing club soup and a roll in the clubhouse was 40p.

Nothing useful to add.

[Jaguar steve]

Huntsman said:

Last time I was a member of a sailing club soup and a roll in the clubhouse was 40p.

Nothing useful to add.

Sailing Club shandy.

15p pint of Double Diamond with the minutest splash of lemonade on top to make it completely and totally legit to serve to anybody under 18. That and plenty of ashtrays on every single table so you can pretend the fag you've just lit belongs to somebody older sitting nearby when your dad walks through the clubhouse door.

That's living on the edge when you're 12.