I've been advised multiple times that I should catch up on dinghy sailing. I'm 6'6" and in Redwood City.
Would anyone have one to try out? Maybe get me started?
Printable View
I've been advised multiple times that I should catch up on dinghy sailing. I'm 6'6" and in Redwood City.
Would anyone have one to try out? Maybe get me started?
You can rent a Catalina 14.4 at Shoreline Lagoon in Mountain View by the hour. No rigging, no de-rigging, no trailer.
https://shorelinelake.com/sailing.html
LASER is cheap and sensitive. FINN would be more expensive, needs a big body, and you'd feel at home with the big guys.
VANGUARD 15 has a good local fleet, and could be sailed singlehanded or raced with a smallish crew. A WYLIE WABBIT needs a crew, would give good spinnaker practice, and can be raced in the Bay with a PHRF of 126. All these dinghies like breeze, which is usually in abundance on SF Bay/Redwood City waters, and are tough and pretty indestructible.
There are umpty-ump dinghies for sale on Craigslist for <$1,000, all the time. Lido 14's up the yingyang, flying juniors, lasers, banshees, Hobie/Holder 14's.
Banshee's were made in Redwood City, so there's a local connection.
C-Lark 14, make by Clark boats in Puget Sound
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/boa...733443530.html
Snipe
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/boa...749607506.html
Capri Cyclone (Catalina)
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bo...752052781.html
Vagabond 14 - same as Holder 14 / Hobie 14
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/boa...746793517.html
I just saw an ad, I think it was on Lat38, that was giving away a Laser for $100 or some good beer. It might be gone by now though it didn't have a trailer and was limited in sails, but that's the great thing about small boats....the parts and pieces are several degrees of magnitude cheaper.
I bought my Holder 14 for $800. Great shape too. No trailer.