RS Vision or Topper Omega?

Hi all, first post!

I have been reading a great deal on this forum- it looks like a great place to get help and advice. Re my actual query, I have searched just about everything I can on Google and in particular this site when trying to decide on my 'family' boat (I have just sold my Laser having sailed them for about 15 years).

I'm pretty sure I am set on either the Vision or the Omega but I just can't make a firm decision no matter how hard I try. I have previously been set on each of them but keep changing my mind!

I want a boat that I can sail single-handed if needed and I have read that the Omega can be a bit of a handful, even reefed, but I like the appeal of the size of the cockpit in the Omega.

The Vision seems to tick most of the boxes, other than the fact that it seems it might get a bit more cramped when I get my two kids in there with myself and the wife. OK, the kids are young at the mo (4 and 3) but I'm hoping to have the eldest out on the water before he's 5 and the same with the youngest. I have also read that the Vision would be more 'tippy' which to be honest I want to try and limit as much as possible.

'Get a cat' I hear you say and I would agree were it not for the fact that holding onto kiddies will be more of a concern in say something like a Dart16 which I would probably think about when the kids are 8~9+.

I guess the best option would be to get a sail in both boats but that's easier said than done. Theres none of either at my last club!

I know that the Vision/Omega/Laser2000etc choice has been done to death a bit but I'm hoping that I've missed something from any threads that I've seen so far.

Laser2000 is just too expensive, Stratos is just too big (and heavy!). Wayfarers- well- I'm sure they are a good boat but...... just no.

Someone please help me decide before I go out of my mind!

Cheers,

Nathan