big pico please

As the 'learn to sail'season draws to a close we are once again faced with the unenviable task of putting the club lasers back together.  They get chipped round the mast hole, chipped along the transom, tillers get bent and broken, rudders get scratched and damaged, daggerboards have chunks taken out.  expensive parts go missing.  Not ideal for hard working training boats.  Yet what alternative can I offer the larger adults and youths who wont fit in the bog standard pico or topper?  And believe me, these youths are getting bigger all the time.

Please could someone design a robust, ideally rotomoulded single hander with a couple of rig sizes, not intended for racing, but entertaining enough to tempt sailors to make the step towards racing and buying their own boat.


Edited by winging it - 12 Oct 13 at 10:11am

the starter sail on the quba is no bigger than the pico.  I want the next boat up from the pico/quba, whoch doesn't seem to exist at the moment.

What happened to project x?

Still a small boat, though, the Q'ba.

I agree that a roto-boat singlehander with more length than the Pico but without the bulk of the current crop of doublehanders would be a good idea. Not designed to race, but if the numbers are there, you can race anything.

The other roto-boat that doesn't exist is the larger Feva. All the bigger boats seem a hell of a lot bigger and more clumsy. We need Paul Handley to get on to that one, if he can stop designing keelboats for a bit!

What about some of the new Hartley rotamoulds?

Topaz?