Lightweight 2 man boat???

Scoprpion - my favourite hiking boat! At 18 -19 stone you are in the weight range for a scorpion and on the lighter side of average. 

You should be able to get a secondhand boat for £2000 - decent for racing. A new one will cost a bit more than that.

I'd say it's worth making sure (don't know how exactly!) that the crew is average height rather than very very tall as the front end is reasonably nice and snug on a calm day. The buying advice on the scorpion website is all good:

h ttp://matrix.webservercity.com/~sailscor/scorpionassociation /html/buying.htm

The inlands are at Grafham on June 16th/17th - could be a good place to find out more once people have finished racing for the day.

Have fun,

Tessa

Scorpion 1903 The Heart of Gold

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can get a perfectly respectable Lark for under £2k I sold mine a coupla years ago in that price bracket. Check out the classifieds on their website www.Larkclass.org

Having seen RS200's vs Larks on a restricted piece of water - the RS never sails to its handicap (& do they moan or what?), while the Lark can, and does. Its all down to the downwind angles, and the fact that the RS can't get the benefit from its assymetric kite.

Crew-weight wise, there's not much to choose between them. 20-23 st but the Lark is a bit sensitive to weight in the front.

I tend to sail as a girlie team and we're always very light - I had an RS200 and we were 16 stone all up, great fun whatever the weather but you're looking at £3000 upwards.

However, I'm now helming a Lark and despite it's being hard work in a blow the rig is forgiving and in the light stuff you'll fly. Keep you're eyes open on the website (www.larkclass.org) and I wouldn't rule out doing a little work to an old one and buying a new suit of sails.

Alternatively, if you're considering a trapeze - I guess a Laser 2 would be a cheap, and slightly quicker, option.

I would prefer a boat with a spinny to be honest, prehaps the MAX i can go up to is £2500. Basically a PY lower than 1080, or faster than the ol' 420! Need something to actually compete with the other boats rather than be near the back! Larks are quite hard to find especially up north aswel same with the 200 so im not quite sure on which boat would do the job!

Any more ideas?