What’s the most fun to sail?
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Topic: What’s the most fun to sail?
Posted By: ajbaldwin
Subject: What’s the most fun to sail?
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 4:01pm
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Ignoring the usual class promotion and fleet racing etc that
sways your decision in choosing your primary boat. What would be your choice for a second “fun
boat”. Let’s say you had an hour to kill
and just wanted to blast about, which boat would you choose for its ability to
put a smile on your face? ------------- Yorkshire Dales SC Vareo 505 |
Replies:
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 4:04pm
RS600.... it would teach you a lot about pure dinghy sailing, and remind you again, why you have a sensible 'first boat' 
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Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 4:04pm
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A Cherub downwind in some chop.
------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 4:28pm
| clarified to '97 rules downwind in a chop? |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 4:33pm
| For the moment I'll just stick to my Canoe thanks... |
Posted By: ajbaldwin
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 5:12pm
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I have never seen a cherub in the flesh and none on apollo duck at the min either. but they look fun on youtube ------------- Yorkshire Dales SC Vareo 505 |
Posted By: slightlyobsessed
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 5:22pm
| 600, no doubt. |
Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 6:58pm
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Will I get hung out to dry if I suggest 'Laser'?
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Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 7:06pm
nope, it will just make seem sensible and grown up and know when a good race is a good race, and the box you shift it is irrelevant if they're all the same.... not really fitting for an internet persona though is it?
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Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 7:13pm
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What's the most fun to sail? It rather depends. Pottering around Chichester Harbour with the grand kids on a summers day in an old Ent would do it for me. It puts a smile on my face 
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Posted By: robin34024
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 9:32pm
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I would love one of the most modern types of low rider moth... A skippy or something, they just look so difficult to sail, but so rewarding when you would finally get the hang of it. Shame there is no class for the latest lowriders and they are rather scarce :P ------------- |
Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 02 Oct 13 at 11:13pm
| Something with a trapeze that is easier to handle for those past their prime. Farr 3.7 - you could ever find one? Vortex? |
Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 8:13am
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RS800 Provided you have someone to sail with and a decent stretch of water.
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Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 8:38am
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I know that when I had knee problems and couldn't sail a Finn I missed it, so I got another. Just the feel of the Finn in a good breeze makes me glad to be alive.
For a one off treat, it would be an Imperium Scow low rider International Moth in a breeze, in waves on Sandgreen Bay. Just a thought , but isn't there a place for the low rider International Moth as a seperate class or a sub division of the class? ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 9:11am
Can anyone suggest a better boat to take into the surf near the shoreline and spend 40mins doing highly illegal kinetics on the waves? |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 9:18am
I think originally the class tried to have lowrider trophies, but in pretty short order almost everyone who was capable of sailing a lowrider to a decent level had bought a foiler and there were just no competitors for lowrider prizes... |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 9:53am
 ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 11:21am
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A bunch of lowrider Moth sailors use the cvrda forum to communicate - everything from 1960 is Europa Moths to Magnum 9.9's. Their aim is to get together and have fun at some point soon. As for the question, many of the boats suggested are hard to sail - an hour once in a while would be spent swimming. So, it needs to be simple to sail, but with the sensation of speed, unless you are already used to boats that fall over if you let go. This is where GRF got to before designing the VTwin, isn't it?! How about a Catapult - that way it can live in bags when you aren't using it, then blow it up and away you go! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 11:22am
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Just seen on your sig that your boat is a Vareo. Why is that no good as a fun boat?!
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 12:46pm
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A Board I miss my old Screamer and I'm told modern boards are faster? ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 1:12pm
Will RS be bringing a board out soon?! Plenty of views on the Y&Y forum as to what it should be like... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 1:28pm
well they've already got a bloke on the ground at the * I must not to use the term 'world' when referring to RS sailing, RS events etc until such time as there is an IJ on station to clarify the class rules. 'Global', 'Glow Ball' or even 'Goebbels' would be more acceptable nomenclature |
Posted By: ajbaldwin
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 3:17pm
Yes I love my Vareo and it’s a lot of fun and perfect for me
as I am fairly new to sailing ------------- Yorkshire Dales SC Vareo 505 |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 3:25pm
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I think this post is going to cost me, it has reminded me about Classic International 14s, my favourite was my 1976 Opus II, a really beautiful cold moulded Charlie Bullock design that I used to sail with Vicky. Anybody got a set of drawings? ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 4:11pm
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Oh, well, if we aren't worried about actually having to sail or be at a location with it except in our heads, then for me it would be an A Class Cat off a very large lake in Europe, a Swift Solo somewhere nice in America, a windsurfer Robbie Naish style in Hawaii, or (and this one it is only the location that is the problem) a Sunfish parked on the beach next to the Hobie cat by a beach bar in Barbados. Ah, that all sounds better than a small gravel pit in Wiltshire... though actually, the Lightning would be nice in those locations, too - apart from on Jaws with Robbie, of course! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 7:20pm
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 9:27pm
But if pressed you might have to admit that the petrol money to go and pick them up would be quite substantial... |