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What boat for me?

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Topic: What boat for me?

Posted By: boo123gles
Subject: What boat for me?
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 10:41am

I am a 16 year old who is 14stone and 5"11 and i want a boat for sailing inland on my local lake!My budget is around 1000-1500 pounds.I first looked at a fireball and then a cherub.After finding that a modern boat from eiter class thaqt fits into my budget is near impossible that doesnt need a spinny conversion of other work i looked at the more modern classes! I have been looking at a spice? Which boat do you lot recon would be best for me? i would like either a fireball,spice,cherub or buzz! i am almost an instructor so there is no probs about wether i can handle the boat or not and i have a commited crew lined up. SO WHAT BOAT?

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Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 10:42am

lookin for a boa with single or doudle wire aswell.Cheers for your help!

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 10:50am

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

Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 10:53am

there are other fireballs+buzz's and probably another cherub!

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 12:22pm

How heavy is your crew? There are Cherub sailors here who could comment better than me but 14st sounds heavy for a Cherub. I don't know much about the Buzz but understand it to be a lightweight's boat. Sorry but 14st isn't lightweight. I wouldn't consider a Spice if you would be the only one at your club. You need class racing, feedback and help from others in the same class to improve. That leaves the Fireball as the one from your list left standing, and a very good class it is too. And I don't even sail one, so that is objective advice.

Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 10:47pm

Since you sail on a lake do consider that (unless it is a very big lake) it would be difficult to sail up to your handicap.

Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 11:06pm

FIre ball seems to cope well with all types of people and can sail well on lakes (well our ones seem to cope ok on their handicap)
And im not too sure how hard it is to get hold of good boats but I know that there was aparently one for sail at my club which wasnt too expensive.

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Posted By: Mike278
Date Posted: 13 Jul 05 at 11:20pm

for your budget you could get a decent wooden fireball (including a wooden Winder), but you should also be able to get a composite severn sailboats fireball for around £1500

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 14 Jul 05 at 7:17am

Originally posted by redback

Since you sail on a lake do consider that (unless it is a very big lake) it would be difficult to sail up to your handicap.

Lost me there: what boat does that comment refer to? If you meant Fireballs, they did OK in handicap at a lake-based club I used to belong to.

Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 14 Jul 05 at 11:20am

get a penultimate I14, twin wire, aymmetric, reasonably quick, good class association and lots of spare/info about, also once they get down to about £1000 they tend to stay there so you wont loose much money on it.

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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 14 Jul 05 at 11:39am

where would you get one of those, cause most arent penultimate and this makes them a tad more expensive

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Buzz591
Chew Valley Sailing club
Bristol

Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 14 Jul 05 at 6:57pm

So you ot recon a fireball? my crew will be 11st or anothere option is JPbuzz who is the same as me! We both get up on the plane flying in a biyt of wind in the buzz.LIghtweights boat???? Does anyone know whgeabout to get a decent fireball from that will actually be fast and have not much work on it?

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Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 1:14pm

Where do you suggest looking for a fireball.Where do i look for a severn sailboats composite fireball?I cnt do much work on the boat as i have no time for it so the boat has to be little or no maintenance!!Where do i look for one?

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 1:22pm

http://www.fireball-dinghy.org.uk/FB%20forsale.htm - http://www.fireball-dinghy.org.uk/FB%20forsale.htm

Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 2:19pm

or try giving pete bond at severn a call. he usually has a few boats available. if not he will probably know where you can get one. alternatively you may be able to find a early composite winder boat, which are arguably faster but you can get a newer boat for your money with a severn. My boat is a severn composite and inland it is just as quick as the newer kevlar-glass boats. Also with the severns from about 14250+ the bow was widened slightly. Although not being a modern wide bow boat it is still slightly wider than winders of the same age.

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49er GBR055
Fireball 14291
Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club

Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 7:04pm

It looks as if i can get a nice fireball fo about 1000 or a tad more.Have to check it all out with the powers that be now.Can i have a numbder for the severn guy?

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Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 9:17pm

http://www.severnsailboats.co.uk - www.severnsailboats.co.uk

01386 552673

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Owain H
49er GBR055
Fireball 14291
Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club

Posted By: boo123gles
Date Posted: 15 Jul 05 at 10:32pm

cheers!!

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