Topper Sport 14 - any good?

I'm not so sure. I grew up with a Wayfarer and, granted, it was a great boat.
However, things must surely move on. I've sailed more modern boats such
as the Laser 2000 and RS Vision and was impressed at how much more user
friendly and, well, better they were.

You wouldn't choose to drive a 40 year old car regularly, would you?

Also, the Wayfarer is bigger and heavier than I'd want.

The 2000 is a much more tippier boat, we've advanced complete beginners from sailing wayfarers to 2000s and quite a few of them have had swimming lessons when such a problem would not have occured if they were still sailing wayfarers. The general impresion we gained from most of our adult pupils at a comercial establshment was that the wayfarer was a good grounding for cruising and racing and the 2000 was the next step up. When teaching basic skills and seamanship skills we'd choose to use the Wayfarer, we generally tended to use the 2000 for more advanced and racing courses. Most of the adults we taught in the 2000s loved it but some prefered the wayfarer because it was less of a racing boat. The Wayfarer is a brilliant boat and can have a racing pedigree about it if you choose to go that direction but I'd say just now is still the ideal family boat.

Not sailed the Vision but it had teething problems, reckon it will be a boat pretty much like the Topper Xenon, still pretty racey.

Edited by 49erGBR735HSC

i've sailed the vision, and its quite well sorted. Easy to reef, just zip the main up, carrys weight quite well and not too bad for a plastic boat

The 14 is a great value boat at the moment caoable of family sailing as well as going for a blast. Granted I would have bought the Vision if funds allowed but as RS have sown up the second hand market by buying back the boats I think the 14 is the best value in its class.