Older Classes With Modern Rigs

Originally posted by Gordon 1430 I remember aiming for the beach with a 505 at Eastbourne but they used to have fenders ready to slip under you.

I remember doing a nationals at a S Coast steep shingly beach ( Worthing ? ) , Cherubs shared with Seaflys- the recommended method of returning was to sail and surf straight at the beach and ride up the shingles and then just step out on dry land...  Works OK with Seafly with a pivoting board and rudder and a really heavy boat, but not so good in delicate Cherub, daggerboard and daggerboard rudder!

Originally posted by Rupert Strange that wooden fishing boats of yesteryear designed to come into beaches like that weren't made as light as possible, but strong enough to survive being dumped on stones. You should have passed your wisdom on to them, too.

Well had the very point of their existence been for sporting competitive use by sail & single males of ahem advancing years and not necessarily weight lifting capability, I might have just done that.

But since the side effect of their existence is to steal our fixed marks, deploy lobster pots, lines, drift nets and to continue to trawl what is a marine conservation as well as our sailing area, I choose to deny them the wisdom of my considerable years and maritime experience.

Originally posted by Rupert Pretty sure an Aero would look like a golf ball if dumped on a shingle beach as you are describing.

Au contraire, there's an Aero 7 doing very well, he's the only one that can recover the boat and bring it up the beach without using a winch or visiting the in-house hernia clinic operated by Contenderwives.com

Originally posted by PeterG Originally posted by iGRF  Either way, if dinghys were stock you wouldn't be able to move them on your own without an assisting device. When did you last see someone moving a dinghy without an "assisting device", Graham. Or are people in your neck of the woods so macho they don't bother with trolleys?

Everytime they come ashore into the steep Shingle at high tide and have no choice other than to drag it clear of the shorebreak something physically impossible for one person to do alone.