Fireball?

10 stone single hander with a WL resticted to under 14ft for under £1000
= Int Moth. Europe ( may be difficult to sell on ), MX Ray ( may be
difficult to sell on ) but mega fun it has an asymetric, and will be difficult
to sail well in a small sheltered lake. That applies to the Moth as well. and
then theres the Byte or lightening, you'd get a lightening for less than
£1000 but a Byte with new rig may be tricky.

Light weights 2 man boat that you can single hand for less that a £1000,
sorry guys it has to be a UK Cherub.

At the end of the day it depends on the lake, and what sort of
condition boat you are prepaired to live with. But I'd go for a MX Ray,
Moth or Cherub.

Edited by Jack Sparrow

You could get a pretty old but still good to race RS 600 most of them are above £1000 but with the amount that are for sale then you could probably knock the price down a few hundered quid, a reefeable rig if youre on the light side and bloody awesome as well; also i know someone who races one on quite restricted water fine so no worries bout running out of lake. And a fireflea you gotta be kidding the poor guy is already sailing a comet duo which is in essence the same boat so not much of a change. Best bet look at the racing classes review to se whats on offer.

Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd If you would normally be planning to sail single-handed, and you want a boat to race, you should be looking at a boat which is designed to be a single-hander. Laser Radial or Europe would come to mind (plenty of cheap Europes for sale at the moment, I'm told. Or have I misunderstood something?

Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd Whatever has class racing at your local lake. Having the only boat in its class at a club is a waste of time.

Agree with both. Def don't mess about with a two man boat - waste of time and effort and no proper PY to race with.

BTW whats wrong with 'common'? They're common because they're good. Or are you  more interested in making a fashion statement than sailing a boat that will provide good racing?

You still haven't told us where you sail - ie how big is it?