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    Lap strake or carvel hull?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionelgee View Post
    Hello All,

    Can anyone recommend a brand and size of sailing boat that is suitable for beginners and designed mostly for solo handling?

    I have been looking at getting into sailing since I live near the coast and have lots of beaches and a port within 20 minutes drive.

    The boat would be second-hand and include a trailer.

    I like the idea of timber or wood as a material for the hull.

    I found that the timber boats that are readily available on eBay, Gumtree and BoatSales were Hartley 16 footers. However, the advice I received from someone from a Hartley Sailing club is that the 16 footers were specifically designed for two-up sailing. Although, they can be rigged for solo sailing for very experienced sailors - which I am not. Maybe, I can encourage SWMBO to get interested in sailing too? Hmmm.

    I have powerboat experience; however, none with sail-boats.

    Any ideas folks?

    Yes, I will be visiting the Bundaberg Sailing Club shortly.

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    Loved sailing Lionel. Mostly in two up taser class races. I did play in a solo Laser class yacht. A new (Old) Canoe found its way to my place for fun now.
    Link below has some info but its all fast and racing stuff really. I think if I was going in a small boat I might find a caterman much more forgiving now. Not to hard to handle solo at all as you can skip the jib. Oddly bigger yatchs are easier solo as you have time to move usually. Two sails and a tiller can be tricky when tacking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    Oddly bigger yatchs are easier solo as you have time to move usually. Two sails and a tiller can be tricky when tacking.
    I can't remember the technical term, but some of the bigger boats like you said things happen a bit slower, and their hull design and weighted keels mean that if you mess up, it points itself upwind and you go nowhere.
    With some of the smaller dinghies, you make a wrong move and it throws you into the water, tangles out up with rigging, cracks you over the skull with the boom, or a heap of other fun stuff.

    If I were back on the coast and in the market, I'd consider a catamaran. Can be had cheap, comfy to sail on casual terms, can be tricked out with a trapeze if you want to swing off the side of the boat for some sick moves to impress the ladies, likewise heaps of room for an esky, fishing gear etc if needed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger View Post
    I can't remember the technical term, but some of the bigger boats like you said things happen a bit slower, and their hull design and weighted keels mean that if you mess up, it points itself upwind and you go nowhere.
    With some of the smaller dinghies, you make a wrong move and it throws you into the water, tangles out up with rigging, cracks you over the skull with the boom, or a heap of other fun stuff.

    If I were back on the coast and in the market, I'd consider a catamaran. Can be had cheap, comfy to sail on casual terms, can be tricked out with a trapeze if you want to swing off the side of the boat for some sick moves to impress the ladies, likewise heaps of room for an esky, fishing gear etc if needed.
    One the money. Larger yachts have semi or full auto helm. Let go of the tiller in a small yacht and it turns immediately. Even a simple rope to hold the tiller at an angle is difficult in a little one as they need almost constant adjustment and turn very quickly which is not the case with larger boats. Tracking straight is one of the keys to sailing fast. Little boats are soooo much fun as they go like the clappers relative to there size

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    For a great read & written by a one time Aussie bloke who sailed & (& rowed), a Mirror from Gloucestershire to the Black Sea via The Canals, River Thames & the English Channel (not the one Wiki said," from Liverpool") you should read his account of that journey for a bit of know how & laughs. I think Wiki got it ballsed up.

    https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-unlikely-voyage-of-jack-de-crow-20080906-gdstuh.html

    Most illuminating, adventurous & humorous.



    Sandy McKinnon was invited here for Dinner post Book Release in Adelaide & is a most entertaining bloke.

    Well after a couple of bottles of Red & sitting in front a roaring log fire who wouldn't be.?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Got the book. Somewhere!

    I did as well John, until some thieving hound borrowed it, never returned it & buggered off OS. Maybe they thought they would emulate his Voyage?

    The olde saying "To lend a book is to lose a friend" holds true, but never quite worked that out, as the friend could be a friend or it could be the book. At the end of the day, it is both I reckon.


    As it happened, I was initially put in touch with "Sandy" (A.J. Mc Kinnon) because he was involved with a S2A (?) Land Rover Fire Appliance stored at his school's Outdoor School in the Victorian Hills somewhere. He was tied up with Geelong Grammar as an Arts Teacher at the time but not sure now it may have been another school but it was a well known one. If I had the book it probably would have told me.


    Edited. Still at Geelong Grammar teaching ARTS & SAILING. (Last heard.)

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    Hello All,

    What type of wetsuit: full, or half length and what type of life jacket is best for sailing - most probably a catamaran? I am in Bundaberg - which can get a tad cool sometimes. A couple of YouTube clips I have watched show people with helmets on. Are these just cyclist helmets?

    Learn to Sail Lessons start on Saturday and I would like to know what kit is needed if I am to make a go of it?

    I remember some people had little wind speed devices on their catamarans at Wivenhoe Dam when I visited there frequently in the 1980s. What other gadgetry would come in handy?

    Kind regards
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    Not much sailing there now ....


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