Choosing a boat: tera or topper

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tera or topper

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Topic: tera or topper

Posted By: sawman
Subject: tera or topper
Date Posted: 03 Aug 15 at 1:39pm

as a first boat, for a fairly new to sailing 11 year old, whats the pros and cons. does the tera sail any better than the topper? (or vice versa?)

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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 1:08pm

Tera a little smaller, boat shaped, Topper will take a little more weight, but you pay for that by having to like scow bows. In terms of a sailing experience, both will do the job very nicely. Find him somewhere to have a go in both, I expect he will have an opinion afterwards.

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