Crew Weight

I was thinking something along the lines of a Laser 2000.

Are you doing inland or sea sailing, are you of equal weight? Are you planning on racing or just cruising.

L2000 is a nice boat, and plenty are sailed singlehanded on our lake. You'd need to choose your weather on the sea, mind. They can be reefed, I believe. Comet Trio would be worth a look, as they are a fairly stable boat with a nice turn of speed, which is very easily slab reefed if singlehanded and the wind picks up.

Both boats are fairly heavy, though, and could be tricky to launch (and especially recover) by ones self. Mind you, most boats are if there are any waves.

 

Originally posted by ColCath <SPAN =spnMessageText id=msg><FONT face=Verdana color=#191970 size=2>Hi, My partner and I would are keen to purchase a 2 person sailing dinghy and are looking for advise on a suitable boat to suit our combined weight of about 200kg. The key ingredient is that we want something that would be easy for a single person to sail as well and for that person to be able to launch it themselves off the beach. We have a budget of about £2000.  Thanks in advance</SPAN>

You could do a whole lot worse than go down the Jack Holt
route.

There is a GP14 that would suit you in the Y&Y
classifieds for £2000...

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/community/classifieds/vi
ew.asp?id=882

You're really probably asking a bit much to get a 2 man
boat that will carry 200 kgs but could be singlehanded
easily.

An Albacore? Can be sailed s/h by someone of 90kg+ fairly easily, and some are even rigged for s/h sailing. Faster than a L2000 too, but no spinnaker to play with. Ease of launch/recovery s/h dependent on steepness of slipway, but def possible

Thanks for all of your responses. It has helped narrow
down the boats to look at now