lightwieght twin trapeze dinghy

Originally posted by m_liddell Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull Cheap 14s and 5000s are probs gunna be your best bets ! i paid 1750 for mine and its given me the money back in sheer enjoyment already! And look how much performance you get! The picture im rtying to post was taken in a flukey force 2! He said "I am 16 and 58kg, and my bro is  57kg". They would have issues even righting a 14, some of the older ones even have Al masts making this problem worse! 14s don't need a lot of wind to be fun downwind. You can be blasting around twin wiring without too much breeze at all  Much as I love mine, I'm not sure it is the right boat for lightweight 16 year olds though.

Very good point Mark, not sure about the Boss but if its anything like the 5000, it will be near impossible to right with 110kg (odd) on the board. Had two of us weighing over 140kg hanging off a righting line and the thing seeming to take an eternity to right. I can right the 49er with my own weight (77kg) on the board but reckon it wouldn't be possible in any wind with a 5000. Spice may be an option but if that's the case, why not just buy a cheap 4000 and save the money for a 800 or wait till you have more weight and buy a 5k, 49er, Boss, etc. Although the 4k is single wire, its much nicer to sail than the Spice, better performance and at least there would be other boats to race against.

There really is a gap in the market for a fun but easy to learn twin wire boat now. I guess the problem is, is that people will spend a season in it and move on to an 800.

This may have been why the 3k had bad times, people sailed it a bit and then got good enough for the 4k/whatever.

seems like spice is the way to go then...

underpowered is fine for our first twin trapeze boat, and we do not want to be going too fast 'cos st mawes bay is not that big!