Question?

how deep is the water were you sail, a 9er doesnt need much more than a laser unless its an issue with the area you have to sail on.

ps, i have to get up at 6.45 for school each morning.

Helz,

Don't be too put off by the ideal weight.  I started sailing a Finn when I was 16 and only 10 stone.  It was a steep learning curve and fantastic fun.  I'm still sailing one now over 30 years later and I'm still not heavy enough!

Is your second name Gump ?

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Maybe trapezing would save your knees.
I still think there's a market for a single-hander with trapeze for lightweights.

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There is always the opption of storning the leach of a contender to reduce the sail area, there are a least two of the light weights who have flatter sails cut. I know it has been discussed in the class weither a smaller sail should be supported with cups at the nationals etc.

Alternativly when I started sailing the contender I was 9.5-10 st and about 21 now nearly 24 I'm pushing 13st, part of that was that for the first year I was eating two meals at a sitting the other part is that Im now at Uni and it is acceptable to drink so much more.

So Hels start sailing a contender, eat more, go to university and in a few year you can becaume a 24 year old man with a beae-belly and a beard .

Seriously dont worry too much about ideal weight sailing skill will be much more important than weight upto a point, at the same time you do sound a little small for any Laser rig, why not look at the Topper or the Byte, the older rig was not much differnt to a 4.7, or if you want to be cool a Europe.