Club Boat

How about the Tasar?

No kite but very fast and good for new crews ...

Rick

Wont a fleet of merlins be hideously exspensive? And be a bomb to keep going and updated etc?

Some of the boats suggested seem a bit, errmm, delicate for the hard life I can imagine a club boat experiences. Also some other classes suggested are trapeze boats, and part of your rewuirements was to be a hiking boat.

The Tasar is a truely awesome class. Much respect. And I'd love to know there was a fleet of them in the UK.

RS200 is a good work horse boat. Loads sailed nationally.I used to be a member of a class with a fleet of them, and they seemed really robust. Easy to sail, but also very tuneable for those who like to get involved.

Lark also seems like a nice boat, but don't really know much about it. The new ones seem really well made. And I expect there is also a good pool of second hand boats.

The absence of a kite may well be an advantage for pond sailing. When sailing a Snipe it atakes about 5 seconds to go from close hauled set-up to down wind and vice versa. Can't do that with a kite!

 

Gordon

Originally posted by Strawberry Some of the boats suggested seem a bit, errmm, delicate for the hard life I can imagine a club boat experiences..........

The original question went a bit like

Originally posted by Hannah Hi, my club might be looking to introduce a new class into sailing (at the moment it is class racing GP14s). What boats would anyone suggest...............

Now I interpret that as what new class should be allowed to race in class only racing. Not what fleet of boats should the club buy so everyone else can trash them (my defn. of a 'club boat'). Now I may be wrong but if I'm not, all boats should have to suffer the 'hard life' of a club racing boat because you need to be a member of a club to race at all. From my personal experience towing a boat around the circuits is much harder on the boat than regular club racing.