Teach A Dog To Sail

Over the last few years i've seen more and more dogs on the water, from on yachts to R.I.B's and even 1 that rides on a jet-ski, my uncle who is an avid windsurfer manged to teach his dog sam on the balance bit and still can manage a force 5 10 years on.

However how much sailing i do though i've never seen a dog on a dinghy (apart from a Devon Yawl).

I'm tempted to try but i don't think loopy springer spaniels go well with laser EPS, and i don't want do scrath the gelcoat on the Vibe.

Has anyone out there tried it?

I like it but would it work with a bigger dog leaping from 1 side to the other?

Looking at it i may give it a go but i think i'll wait until it's warmer cause i've got a feeling i'll get very wet!

Since i put one on, it's so slow and terrible we put sport 14 sails and rudder, gelcoat, xenon centreboard, 600 narow wings and a gennaker off a 29er.

lots of things break but if you get it going (and upright) it'll  keep up with a 400!

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What, how did you put a "gelcoat" on??

We sail in brightlingsea and know loads of the boat builders there it was just a matter of one of them owing me a favour.

P.S Give me a month or two for pictures, we don't get it out of storage until april and i haven't got any as we've only sailed it 3 times last year as testing.