Farr 3.7

Originally posted by Do Different And the Contender, well......................., 5' 4" 75kgs and a senior railcard, it's been the best fun ever though.

You can manage a Contender? I'm not so different a tad taller and a tad lighter but I figured I'd not manage it once the wind crested 12 knots.

It's a Contender I'd like, but with a more manageable rig and half it's dead weight.

Realistically you're only a foot too short to sail a Radial ;) I should sell the Spice and buy an Ent for me and my occasional crew, we'd do much better but sailing the Spice, even as badly as we do, is FUN...... :)

I'm unfortunately the type of person that does not sail these things for 'fun' in the exhilaration meaning of the word, my enjoyment is the competitive element so yes being able to stay ahead of Lasers off the line is important. It's unlikely I'll beat them on handicap anyway, but at least finishing ahead of them is some consolation.

If I want exhilaration I have a kite or sailboard they are exhilarating in a fun sense but boring fairly quickly once the limitations of age and injury potential are considered.

I need to have a go in one in a race environment I guess, one of these days I'll see one somewhere and blag a go.

Edited by iGRF - 19 Oct 17 at 7:20pm

If you are the sort of person that can only focus on, if it will beat a Laser in non wiring conditions, it's not the boat for you. (iGRF - BTW, you are very light, so you'd be wiring early). 

We have 18 boats, built or in build. We are a bit hampered by a lack of second hand boats. NZ doesn't have any either. So you have to build or buy new at the moment. Unless one comes up. We had 3 boats at Lyme Regis (hence holding the Nationals there). But one of those boats moved to Berkshire. The rest are all over. Draycote, Norwich, London, Hastings, Isle of Wight etc...