Quandary
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Now boatless after 50 years and three attempts at packing it in, I was contemplating one of those wee new Royal Enfield 350s but decided that with the club yard and slip 50 yards from my front door what I needed was a sailing dinghy.
No racing here, it would just be used for occasional pootling about Loch Gilp, perhaps as far as the Oystercatcher on the far side of Loch Fyne for lunch.
So single handed sailing and launching and a tendency to stay upright most of the time and a resistance to inversion. I will not be wearing a wet suit, (I dont think it will stretch) just t shirt and shorts. Grp hull preferred. I have a Laser 2000 ( my son's) here just now for a tidy up, I like it but it is too powerful for single handing,and too much work to launch and recover. In the distant past I have sailed Mirrors but can no longer crawl under the boom and more recently had a a Laser 13 when we were trying to encourage sailing in the loch but know little about mainstream dinghies. Be good if I could put a little outboard on the back and go out for mackerel on quiet summer evenings. Do not want to go too far to fetch it so something commonplace would be good.
No racing here, it would just be used for occasional pootling about Loch Gilp, perhaps as far as the Oystercatcher on the far side of Loch Fyne for lunch.
So single handed sailing and launching and a tendency to stay upright most of the time and a resistance to inversion. I will not be wearing a wet suit, (I dont think it will stretch) just t shirt and shorts. Grp hull preferred. I have a Laser 2000 ( my son's) here just now for a tidy up, I like it but it is too powerful for single handing,and too much work to launch and recover. In the distant past I have sailed Mirrors but can no longer crawl under the boom and more recently had a a Laser 13 when we were trying to encourage sailing in the loch but know little about mainstream dinghies. Be good if I could put a little outboard on the back and go out for mackerel on quiet summer evenings. Do not want to go too far to fetch it so something commonplace would be good.