small club racing yacht

[underdog]

For the last 12 years this has been my compromise boat an H-323 built by Artekno in Finland designed by Hans Groop, the designer of the international H boat.
Have raced successfully singlehanded , using a symmetrical spinnaker spinnaker. Also just returned from a 560 mile cruise round the Western Isles

 

[roblpm]

For the last 12 years this has been my compromise boat an H-323 built by Artekno in Finland designed by Hans Groop, the designer of the international H boat.
Have raced successfully singlehanded , using a symmetrical spinnaker spinnaker. Also just returned from a 560 mile cruise round the Western Isles
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None for sale anywhere! ?

 

[mrming]

None for sale anywhere! ?

More chance of purchasing some rocking horse poo. ?

 

[bignick]

If that sails anywhere near as well as my old H-boat then I want one.

 

[underdog]

five currently listed in Finland and one in Sweden all at sensible money. A few years back a friend bought one in Sweden and trailed by road back to Northern Ireland

 

[underdog]

If that sails anywhere near as well as my old H-boat then I want one.

Owned an H boat before I bought the H-323. Definitely faster than the H boat. But higher handicap.
An H -323 Silver Moon II recently won the Roschier Baltic Sea Race
See report here:
Silver Moon II wins Roschier Baltic Sea Race.

 

[doug748]

I enjoy my racing on the current boat but it needs 4 crew and is expensive to keep up to scratch. Plus we are much less interested in cruising than used to be the case. So I find myself wondering whether there is a boat which I could single hand in club races ( PY not life or death racing) or crew with two. Racing is winter as well as summer and is only cancelled in winds over 30kn so it must be seaworthy and reefable etc. Maybe 28 to 30 ft loa.

I am thinking of self tacking jib with an assymetric on a prong and all ropes led back to the cockpit. But I guess the key issue is getting a boat that isnt too flighty to allow you to leave the helm, maybe on a pilot, whilst you trim the sails.

Is there such a thing? Is it even feasible?

The original question. I know you have purchased Birdseye..

However, pitching in with the zombie thread, here is my suggestion:

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Great thing a bout a boat on a trailer is that it can cost you nothing when you are not using it.