Sailing in your 80% Healthspan

Tink's concept.
The challenge will be fore and aft trim. Sliding seat back and forward is a pain in the neck. People have produced systems that slide under load, but horribly expensive (think four high load ball bearing mainsheet traveller cars as the foundation). With an IC the canoe stern tends to mean it squats at speed, which reduces the need for fore and aft trim. You could get the same effect with aft rocker, but its a horrible destroyer of speed.
It might be worth considering folding winglets which flopped into the boat when on her side. If my PlusPlus were still about it might be possible to do an experiment, but the winglets would need to be narrow enough that you could get in the boat between them, and mine nearly met in the middle.

Edited by JimC - 22 Dec 19 at 9:51pm

Originally posted by Dougaldog well Tink, I examined this issue in some detail a while back..... cast your eye over https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/188538/Silver-Dream-Racer Dinghy sailing is quite remarkable in the fact that it can be one of the most 'un-ageist' of participation sports. Before posting, I reread my article and with another 3 years now 'on the clock' I'd not change much.....in terms of single handers recoverability out afloat I would say was now the must crucial aspect - that and ease of moving about on shore. I can still hike, waggle a tiller and pull in the mainsheet, so performance sailing is still possible IF.... you can get someone fit and nimble to do the leaping around in the front of the boat. Still in reflective mode - it is sad that out of  the three boats I name checked as being better for the older sailor, the Alto, Icon and H2, only the singlehander is a going concern. I was RO for their Nationals again this year (second year in a row.....a nice class that are a joy to manage) and even in the difficult going, they were still recoverable by 'older' sailors - as in older than me and I'm old! Bottom line - chose the right boat/boat+crew and there is not a lot to stop you sailing on into the 70s! D

My Sprint sail has battens but most of them are similar to the Toppers.