Actually, I suggested that we have the RAID on a weekend that didn't conflict with an already-existing SSS event, but Jim and Ants can do it on the V-1-2 weekend, so here we are.
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I can't join the RAID next month but I'm interested in future events. I've long admired the Potter Yotters and the locations they visit, but I couldn't bring myself to sail that slowly.
What boats make sense for RAIDs in and around San Francisco Bay? I'd want something I could sit in, not on, with some storage/shelter, and that is responsive for sailing. Probably with a gunter rig to slip under low bridges without dropping the whole mast. As posted above, self-rescuing would seem to be important as well.
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There really is no such animal commercially made that I know of. Try and find a commercially made dinghy with a gunter rig, for example. This article, and the boat it represents are just about ideal from what I can see, and right along the lines of what you've suggested.
http://www.hostellerssailingclub.org...y-for-cruising
In terms of safety, it's pretty hard to beat the Boston Whaler sailboats, with all their internal flotation, but you'd have to replace the rig with a gunter. It might be worth trying to find a 15-18 foot dinghy with no mast, and re-rig the boat. John Welsford has a few boats which sail well enough and have excellent setups for rowing.
And of course, river of Grass that Tchoup is building.
Might look at the Core Sound series, but their whole "thing" is the twin cat rig.
Likely bigger and more work that you're looking for, but this fine Ted Brewer design is located a couple of trailer spots down from me in Alameda.
1994 26' Nimble Kodiak Pilothouse Motor Sailor For Sale
Owner says he'd take significantly under the current list price (even with the posted price drop).
FWIW. DH
I tried to avoid getting Rags sideways while under low bridges.
We had a Cape Dory 10 when I was a kid. It had a gunter rig and I was able to circumnavigate Government Island without any trouble. That P14 I was drooling over also had a gunter rig. Nice too because all the spars fit easily inside the boat.
Bob, your comment about gunter-rigged dinghies and my assertion that there weren't "production" gunter rigged dinghies is off the mark.
The Tideway Series of dinghies from the UK, are available as gunters. Some of their models are nesting dinghies like the PT 11.
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The old standby, the Mirror is a gunter. I had a plywood mirror for a while, and I liked it.
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Some of the Drascombe boats...like I think maybe the Dabbler?? are gunter rigged.